Who has the better education system: the UK or the USA?

Answer 1

NEITHER,CANADA DOES......

Answer 2

I've no idea about the USA, but the UK is a shambles now.
Don't get me wrong, there are some great teachers, but the lack of discipline in the schools thanks to the pathetic nanny state we live under mean that kids can do whatever the hell we want.
Plus the government has no clear policy on how to improve things, so they're continually getting worse.
A good example for me is the fact that they're not pushing foreign languages any more, they're not compulsory beyond a certain age, so the number of people learning anything other than badly spoken and written English is dropping all the time.
Also, there's next to no sports in schools, so we're getting a load of stupid lazy fat kids. An absolute disgrace.

Answer 3

As usual, this kind of question does not have a real answer. The systems in both countries do a pretty fair job of teaching the large majority of people basic skills. But, especially in the USA, the quality of the schools varies tremendously from state to state and city to city. Some schools have excellent funding from local authorities, and some districts are near bankruptcy, so of course, the schools reflect this.

I do not give much credit to the various polls, etc that say how far some foreign countries are ahead of the US. In most of those countries only a small proportion of the kids attend school, especially at the higher levels. So you wind up comparing the test scores of only the very best foreigh students agains the scores of a whole range of American students in schools where there is a huge effort to keep every single student in the school as long as possible. For many of these American kids, if they were in a foreign country they would never have been allowed to continue in school, never mind take a test that was going to be used as a measure of the quality of their school!

American schools have to deal with some problems that don't exist elsewhere. For instance, the USA allows a lot of immigration (plus illegals!) and so in a city school system near me there are students who speak over 90 different languages at home. Compare that to a system in a country (like Finland) where the students are racially and culturally uniform. It makes the challenge for American teachers very difficult compared to what their foreign colleagues have to deal with.

As long as American universities continue to attract large numbers of foreign students, it is a vote of confidence in the US educational system.... you don't see that many students desperate to travel to Finland or Singapore to study.

Answer 4

I would have to say the UK when compared to the usa because of the fact that our educational system is at the mercy ;of the politicians who really dont care because all their kids go to private schools and the reason this is ,so that they can keep the poor ppl poor and the rich ,richer get it?

Answer 5

I don't really know. Does the UK graduate high school students that can barely read and are functionally illiterate? We do here.
As far as universities go, the US has over half of the top 100 in the world, 8 of which are in the top ten.

Answer 6

Finland has the best education system in the world.

Answer 7

the everyday interior the united kingdom is larger than that of the U. S. - only check out what you detect on those pages !! there are a number of ameliorations occurring interior the English coaching gadget (not all of them in favour of the greater advantageous), not such a great number of interior the Scottish gadget (that's larger).

Answer 8

America, that is why we are the dominating country. We have more, and we know more. You tell me?

Answer 9

they are both second tier.... which is increasingly scary