The OECD's top education official has issued a wake up call to Australia, declaring that China's schools are no longer stuck in rote learning but have overtaken Australia in teaching creativity and reasoning skills.
Andreas Schleicher, the OECD director for education and skills, said Australians had an outdated perception of how their schools compared with those in rising Asian countries such as China.
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