Recently an international comparative report on digital literacy among young people was published, highlighting that in Slovakia the differences between students are as big as between Harvard and a Harlem school, while in Hungary a very modest two-page summary was published on the website of the Education Office, highlighting that Hungarian students did well. But what is this survey and what can we learn from it?

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The latest PISA results show that Hungarian students' creative thinking is around the OECD average. Creativity can be developed, as a Hungarian programme that has been running for ten years clearly demonstrates. How does an imaginary classmate help in the fight against exclusion and also in maths? What are Romanian artists doing in Hungarian schools in Transylvania? How can probability be practised in the library? Interview with Szilvia Németh, head of Creative Partnership Hungary.

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Inequalities need to be tackled, according to an education researcher who spoke to this newspaper. "Hungarian students are in the middle of the pack in creative thinking, slightly below the OECD average, so this is not a significant gap. The survey also showed that there are big differences between schools in Hungary in this respect. There are schools where more emphasis is placed on creative thinking, and there are schools where the importance of creative thinking is less recognised, and this is clearly reflected in the results," education researcher Szilvia Németh told Népszava on the PISA measurement published on Monday, which examined the creative thinking of 15-year-old students in 2022.

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