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30th October 2018
12:20pm GMT

The report also noted that one in ten children in Ireland have not reached basic proficiency in reading by the age of 15.
Across the 41 countries, the was a gender difference in reading scores.
Girls in Ireland do two per cent better than boys in their reading abilities by the age of 15, while in Bulgaria the difference is 12 per cent in girls' favour.
Unicef concluded that a country's "high income is no guarantee of high equality."
"Some of the poorest countries included in this report, such as Latvia and Lithuania, have higher preschool enrolment rates and lower inequality in reading performance in primary and secondary school than those with far greater resources," the report reads. "However, almost universally, children from less privileged families do worse. Yet, the data reveal there is much more inequality within countries than there is between countries."
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