Well with an MS Ed in education, I feel qualified to comment. I live here three years have volunteered in the local schools. I have a step daughter and son in school here. I fear for their future. The schools are not preparing these kids for the future as OFW's. Silliman University is OK and maintains a standard, some of the rest are diploma mills, with corrupt teachers, and no oversight.
Educated and intelligent are not neccessarily mutually inclusive.
Anyone who stands on their head to laud the education system here, clearly doesn't know what they are talking about.
Private elementary and secondary schools can have decent cirriculii, the public schools are indeed a joke. No computer skills are taught. Kids entering college are not prepared in most cases. Projects in college often are copy paste internet exercises.
A very arrogant attitude not give a damn I might add. come here and help out instead of sitting in your comfy UK house.
I hope to help out andteach a few courses next semester at a local university, and maybe make adifference.