Immigrant students in Switzerland more motivated, less integrated
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A new report shows that immigrant teens in Switzerland feel more motivated to do well in school than their native-born peers, despite feeling less integrated than a decade ago. The report was published on Monday by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and compares comprehensive 2015 statistics about teenage student performance with a more recent overview specifically of immigrant students. On performance, the findings state, foreign-origin 15-to-16-year-olds in Swiss schools fare averagely: some 58% demonstrate competence in the three core subjects of reading, mathematics, and science. This is just above the European and international mean, though it pales in comparison with the top-performing nations of Singapore (91% competence), Macao (88%), Hong Kong (84%), and Canada (82%). In general, the OECD's report found that foreign-born pupils perform around 10 percentage points below their native-born peers across subject areas. To ...