Pisa score puts a shine on progress of Muslim community in Singapore, says minister

Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs Masagos Zulkifli during an interview with The Straits Times on the progress made by the Malay/Muslim community this year.- ST/ANN

SINGAPORE (ANN): Malay students in Singapore have achieved a historic first by outperforming the average international student in mathematics, the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) results show.

As for reading and science, the students' scores are on a par with their counterparts in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which includes the United States, the United Kingdom and China.