My kids have all spent time being educated in the Philippines education system (public elementary, and private high school), and the English system.
I always took a close interest and helped them with their homework.
My experience was that in many areas the Phils schools were in advance of the British system, and certainly stricter...including giving lots of homework.
The MORAL education was FAR superior to here.
As mentioned previously, the older (step)children are both at university here now, after each achieving fantastic GCSE results, and my (own) youngest boy is in the 6th form after passing 14 GCSEs. I thought it was 11 until I saw his certificate that was only issued last week.
Their mother, my ex, wasn't idle either.
She, a lady who hadn't finished High School in the Phils because of poverty, studied here for her B.Nurs degree and graduated a couple of years ago, but even she then had to go to Sweden to find work nursing...a blessing in disguise for me, admittedly.
In some ways I'd rather that my kids had had their entire education in the Phils, merely because of the family and community values that are taught there, but knowing that UK certificates would ultimately enable them to better compete in the modern world, I brought them back here.
