[QUOTE=ANDRES25;135444]As all of us know, a University degree in the Philippines isn't really recognized here in the UK and no matter how much experience you have or how high your job position was in the Philippines, it doesn't really count much in securing or landing any jobs here in the UK except maybe if you're a registered nurse in the Philippines.
Don't I know it! And it's all so, sooooooooooo WRONG! My wife graduated BSc in Agricultural Education after 4 years' hard slog at the University of S.E. Asia's Tagum City Campus and subsequently taught for 22 years in a National High School. Yet, according to the Scottish Vocational Qualifications Authority [SVQA] her degree is only recognised as being on a par with HNC/HND here -
in spite of further part-time study towards a 'Masters' in Education, and being the holder of a clutch of other certificates attained at various intervals throughout a highly successful teaching career.
Now, in my opinion - and I'm sure many will agree with me on this- a degree is a DEGREE, regardless of WHERE it is obtained. In fact, I even raised a thread about this very subject a number of weeks ago. Entitled "The Great (Educational) Divide", it appeared in the 'Rants' column, and, as the name implies, it drew attention to the imbalances in the academic 'rating systems' as percieved by different nationalities. Sadly, my article barely left the 'launching pad'! Fingers crossed THIS one will gather sufficient momentum (if not exactly to exert pressure on the British and other governments around the world to re-examine their set criteria) to at least encourage members of this forum who find themselves in a similar situation, to make their views known.
Normally, I am fond of interspersing my posts with a fair sprinkling of humour. As regards this PARTICULAR topic, though, I'm deadly serious!
