Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢@bookstardust The UK is one. There was a documentary about it a few years back. A UK school sent teachers and students to Korea to observe and learn, and find which parts can be adapted for the UK system and culture.
There was another, earlier, documentary from another country, but this one was about adapting the Japanese education system. I can't remember much about that one. Maybe it was mainland China? Since their current system have more similarities with Japan (at least what was made public).
In any case, Korea is also learning from other countries, and this made them realise that their system (and society) is far too strict. (Was not in the documentary, but it's one major reason why Koreans are choosing to raise their children in the Philippines, to escape the very strict and toxic education system.)
I think the Philippines is in a good position to learn from South Korea and adapt parts of it in our own. Foreigners are coming here to study, which means, we have a good education system that can compete with other nations. The best way to further improve our education system is to adapt parts of the Korean and Japanese systems; not to “sell” our schools to foreigners, or allow foreign institutions to open branches here. I fear that, if we let them do that, especially from Western institutions, they might introduce student loans… which… well…
And if they're learning from Korea and Japan, then we might as well go straight to the source. If we really want to allow foreign institutions to open up locally, or own existing ones, it's much better to invite Koreans and Japanese, than Western schools.
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