Asian Education: Better Than Western Education?

I agree Asian Education is better than western --the only reason Asians come to the West is to use their education to earn more rewards--financial and research facilities. Africans do for the same reasons!!

Nigerian education is also very good and you can see the results in the high number of qualified Naija people making it in all subjects in the west. The only problem is the fairly recent downturn of Nigerian Universities ( in the last 12-15 years) due to underfunding by Government. This is however being offset by the private universities coming up in Naija!! They are the future of good quality education in Nigeria. Why spend so much to study in the west when private Universities in Naija are much cheaper and even better!! Asian IT colleges are now opening campuses in Ghana.

Education in Asia and Africa (especially Nigeria and Ghana) is very important to us.

Most western companies even prefer to employ graduates from outside western Universities if they want hardworking researchers.

My friend, after doing more research, i would have to admit that Western education is waaaaaaay ahead of Asian education, its not even close. Asian schools are only good for just a bachelors. The bachelors program at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) or China's Tsinghua University is brutal compared to even MIT or Caltech. For more proof, just look at this year's Nobel prize winners, all of them except one woman ( the lady who won for physiology and medicine) who is a researcher at Israel's Weizermann institute. The difference between the Asian schools and the western schools starts at the graduate level (masters and PhD level) because the Asians are still far behind in the level of research that western schools do. The only research institutes/universities that can compete with western schools are the Israeli schools i listed like the Technion Institute or Weizermann Institute. Sorry for misleading anyone sha, the reason i started it was partly to educate our people that if they couldn't afford to go to the west, instead of going to Ghana why not go to malaysia, singapore or India where you can get a much MUCH MUCH BETTER education.

Also, on your assertion that there is no need spending all that money to go to school in the West, omo na lie ooooooo. If you have the money YOU BETTER FIND YOUR WAY TO A STANFORD OR A UC BERKELEY because the gap between those schools and the ones in naija is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo   wide its not even funny. Just go and ask any naija boy who went from OAU to any good school in yanki, they would tell you the difference is very very very clear. Nigerian professors are EXTREMELY HORRIBLE and as bad as the public universities are, THE PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES ARE MUCH MUCH MUCH WORSE. I hope that you would one day have the opportunity to come to yanki then you would truly, truly understand how wide the gulf is between our schools and there schools. So my guy, even if you have the cash, you better find your way over here.

I think only asia,

there are so many asians at the top that I can't even use the excuse of discrimination to describe the paucity of africans in such positions

Taking into consideration the  varied opportunities for personal development and skills acquisition that are available in a country like America, there really is no contest.

Furthermore, institutions like Harvard,Princeton and MIT are world leaders in terms of original scentific research and development. This coupled with generous funding enables them to attract talented researchers from all over the world.

As oyinda rightly said it really should not  just be about observing the high academic performance of the priviledged minority of students from countries like India and concluding therefrom the Indian education stystem,for instance, is better than that of any Western country.