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The 21st century has brought a great change in the way of educating people, especially in emerging countries. An example has been the implementation of International Education in the local education system.
A good example of this is in Indonesia.
In the span of ten years, Indonesia has deregulated the once-rigid state education system and allowed local private schools to offer international education to its own citizens as well as expatriate children.
This has allowed Indonesian students to study locally. cambridgeYoInternational IBand UK IGCSEs programs in private schools in the cities and towns of the Indonesian islands. And it produced some surprising results with Indonesian children who are often ranked alongside their British and American counterparts, alike.
Some critics of this policy have claimed that while the state-provided education system sometimes lacks basic facilities, it is creating a new “elite” of educated Indonesians in the west, who can afford higher school fees for enter these internationalized schools.
But studies have shown that in the 1990s, this newly educated “elite” was often sent to study in Singapore, Australia and the US, and now their Western-educated parents prefer them to study closer to home. It also allows more Indonesians to allow their children to get an international education, when previously they could not afford to send them abroad.
Many Indonesians have always looked west for a better education, and today many Indonesians work in the nation’s urban centers and hold degrees primarily from American and Australian universities.
Local critics cite the recent economic collapse in countries outside of Indonesia, stating that perhaps as the economies failed, so did the educational system that created the leaders who presided over the economic decline of many of these countries, and Indonesia imitates them too much. .
The “westernized” educational system offered by these Schools are internationalized, but also in the long term they can teach values from countries that, according to some, are foreign to the local culture. Values that are based on “pop” culture and Western ideas, rather than Indonesian “family values”.
Some academics see this trend as disturbing, when a new generation of educated “western” Indonesians may rule Indonesia, at a time when some economists predict that China and India could be the main influence on Indonesian society.
Other critics claim that students lose their cultural identity and become less national citizens, but more global citizens. Identifying with the United States more than with their own culture, and many times emigrating there, once they have finished their studies.
Those who agree that the changes are beneficial say that Indonesia will have a new generation of citizens ready and able to cooperate and compete in business with their Western counterparts. Bring wealth to Indonesia.
However, for most Indonesians, an international education offers opportunities in Indonesian society and beyond that a state system can only provide from certain schools. And until that changes, millions upon thousands of Indonesian children will attend local schools studying IB and IGCSES programs and, in some cases, do better in exams than their US and European counterparts.
(This article is part of a new series of articles based on the Educational and Training trends of the 21st Century)