A comparative study, due to be published today, shows that young students from Scandinavian schools are top of the class when it comes to writing, reading and understanding English, according to AFP.
The report - which ranks 12,000 children aged 15-16 from Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Sweden, France and Spain - shows that Swedes and Finns are outperforming their European rivals.
But there is a very poor report for French pupils, whose level of English has dropped s...
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