I have just gone through the list of the best schools in the world on the internet and I was really surprised.
Japan is still one of the top performing countries but even they have moved down the list.
Here are the ones who did make the grade according to the W.E.F. (World Economic Forum)
Countries are ranked according to the 12 pillars of competitiveness this is done by market efficiency.
According to them Japan is 9th.
There are 3 countries that fall under the 9th countries.
In Japan high school is not compulsory but it has a 98% enrolment.
Barbados and New Zealand go hand in hand with Japan and make up the other two 9th positions.
In Barbados we have the highest literacy rate and the schools are all state owned.
New Zealand has three types of secondary schools of which 85% are state schools. The rest are integrated and 3% are private schools.
Then in 8th Place is Estonia... also known for the advances in blockchain technology)
They believe that children should learn to be creative and that should last forever as this is something they start doing when they go to school. It means that it is a way of life for people to never stop learning.
Ireland has let go a bit and dropped their support with 15% so it is believed that Ireland might just fall out of the race as they are not getting the same help as before.
Qatar is on the same level as Ireland but they are spending a lot of money to help education as they want to be part of a vision for 2030 to make the country self-sufficient.
Next according to them come the Netherlands, with the happiest children. There are only a few private schools as the other schools are divided into faith schools and “neutral schools”
Because no homework is given before secondary school children seem calm and relaxed. They can still play while they are children.
Singapore is well known for its good education but the children are put under a lot of stress and are compared to other countries by their own country. This make the stress level a lot higher.
Then we have Belgium, they have four different secondary schools one for art one for then general, technical and vocabulary schools. These children go to school between the ages of 4 and 18 at no cost or very little cost at all.
Switzerland is the next one but they have many schools as there are many different languages spoken and children are taught in their home language such as French, German and Italian and of course Swiss. They all go to schools that use their language and they are second best according to the W.E.F.
Finland is top of the list and is known for the fact that they have no banding system that is why the difference between the strongest and weakest child is not very big.
They do not get any homework and only write one test at the age of 16.
This is all according to the W.E.F.
These are the top 11 countries when it comes to education.