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When my daughter attended school in the Philippines she would come home and tell us stories of her English classes. The teachers who were teaching English were pronouncing and spelling words improperly (not to mention improperly using the words in sentences: "Did you picked up the medicine today?") I told my daughter as long as they didn't expect her to mispronounce or misspell words, to just do what was required for the class. There did come a time that her dad (a native Filipino who had migrated to the U.S. in the 70's) had to make an appointment with one of the teachers when she had missed words on a spelling test that she had actually spelled correctly, but not by Filipino English standards. I think they have a long ways to go in their understanding and use of the English language for use overseas, but they do well enough for their needs there in the Philippines.

 

My concern is not only English standards but also educational standards overall. Science in public schools here seems to be taught without practical experience (understandable due to high cost of equipment), is haphazard and covers very little (probably because the schools often close for long periods of time, the teachers are not always in the classrooms and their own education was poor).

If there is one thing that really needs urgently sorting out, it is the public education system - most of the reforms would not cost much as they are attitudinal and I believe that a good teacher can produce good results for the students even if teaching in a substandard building with substandard provision of books and equipment.

 

Probably when brexit kicks in and the UK leaves EU we will let more Filipino nurses in, who knows. Hope they do, I know some Filipinos nurses in UK and they are good even better than British.

 

The UK has lots of Filipino nurses but stopped because of their command of English Language is not good enough.
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