Luxembourg schoolchildren's digital skills have improved in recent years
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In April and May 2023, Luxembourg participated in a study assessing the digital competences of sixth-year secondary school students. The results improved significantly compared to 2018, confirming the success in integrating digital competences into the country's education system.
From 2020, the Luxembourg Ministry of Education is actively introducing digital skills into the curriculum. Programming courses started to appear gradually in primary school from the 2020/2021 school year. In secondary school, a course on digital sciences started to be introduced from 2021/2022. These efforts allowed Luxembourg to improve its performance in the ICILS 2023 study, which assesses digital literacy (CIL) and computational thinking (CT). In 2023, Luxembourg scored 494 points on CIL, surpassing the international average of 476 points.
Among the 35 participating countries, Luxembourg was one of the few countries to improve its results, along with Italy. The country ranked 17th in CIL and 16th in CT, despite falling slightly behind the international average in computational thinking. According to Education Minister Claude Meisch, these results show the positive impact of the reforms, although their full effects have yet to be assessed.
Luxembourg will continue to adapt course content to technological change, including aspects related to artificial intelligence. The Ministry intends to strengthen co-operation between teachers and digital skills specialists to ensure that pupils develop not only technical but also cognitive and social competences necessary for life in the digital society.
