Top 5 Best Education Systems in the World-South Africa Leads the Continent

African universities have on a number of occasions been accused of releasing half-baked graduates to the industries making it difficult for employers to easily absorb the young brains.

Numerous lecturer strikes and lazy unmotivated lecturers who just cannot get into a class at the right time and always seem to enjoy missing classes is just the tip of an iceberg of the frustrations Kenya’s university students have to struggle with. It is hence not a surprise that Kenya nowadays will rarely appear on reports of best education systems.

Well, there are so many universities in the World and with an increased number of scholarship awards, as long as one has good grades and loves finer things in life; it is possible to join other universities Worldwide. If your dream has always been to study abroad then you need to know where the best education systems in the World are, below is eye-opening information on the best education systems the World has to offer.

Every institution is as great as its resources, Africans have a saying that a lazy person complains of the working tools. Resources availed to people who are not resourceful is a wastage of wealth. Resources that the private sector or the government has to offer are essential for a good education system.

Resources

Switzerland, Singapore, Denmark, Canada, and Sweden are the highest ranked countries in the World according to a report published in May 2018 by the Universities 21 Network of Universities (U21) in terms of providing resources to its students. The report analyzed 50 national systems of higher education from all the seven continents and sadly from Africa, only South Africa is featured in the list at number 41 out of the top 50.

Environment

The environment of where you are going to study is significant as it determines your level of concentration. The research took into consideration the competition between institutions, monitoring of performance and the country’s diversity. The five countries that topped on the great environment are Finland, United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore with South Africa again being the only country on the list at position 22.

Connectivity

A good education system should be well connected to the society, country and well linked to other institutions across the World. United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Netherlands, and Denmark, according to the report, are the best connected. South Africa, being the only African country in the top 50 list comes in at number 32.

Output

Every student schools with the hope of achieving some goal which is referred to as the output. On measuring the output levels, the report reviews the student’s performance, quality of a country’s universities, a measure of a research and the impact it has and how easy it is to employ the graduates.

It is on the above measures that the report concludes that the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Switzerland, and Denmark rank highest in the World with South Africa scooping number 36 as the first African country.

Overall Results

The United States has the best education system, Switzerland follows, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Denmark scoop the 5th position, Finland and Netherlands tie for the 6th position as Canada holds the 7th.

In Africa, South Africa leads the way with the best education system being the only country featuring in the top 50 research list.