ABSTRACT
This chapter uses data from multiple waves of PISA to discuss educational inequalities across the UK. We illustrate how inequalities in science outcomes are bigger in England than in Northern Ireland and Wales, driven in part by a significant decline in the highest-achieving pupils in some parts of the UK over the last decade. The results also highlight how the Welsh education system is not stretching the most able pupils enough, resulting in comparatively low scores of the most advantaged socioeconomic group. Policy implications and directions for future academic work are then discussed.
