{"id":766318,"date":"2026-09-10T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766318\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:24:13","slug":"fmqs-john-swinney-faces-accusations-of-failing-school-pupils-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766318\/","title":{"rendered":"FMQs: John Swinney faces accusations of failing school pupils in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Offord claims education rankings reveal a national emergencypublished at 14:28 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:28 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Offord moves on to education and the latest Pisa figures which rank nations on maths, reading and science.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says it is a &#8220;national emergency&#8221; that Scotland has fallen so far behind England in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He claims Swinney is responsible for this &#8220;ruination&#8221; of a once proud nation, in his roles as finance minister, education minister and now as first minister, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swinney says the real example of ruination is people like Offord and fellow Reform MSP Thomas Kerr spreading &#8220;racist filth in our society&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says the Pisa scores are just one measure of education, and that data from Scotland&#8217;s teachers show S3 pupils are achieving record levels of literacy, and there are many other things to be proud of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Offord claims education rankings reveal a national emergencypublished at 14:28 BST 14:28 BST Offord moves on to education&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-766318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}