Learning from Other Nations' Education Systems: the Chinese Experience

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The second instalment in the chairman's series on what Iraq can learn from other nations' education systems (following an essay on Britain). China's system produces world-leading results in mathematics, science and languages through discipline, structure and heavy investment in STEM — but at the cost of intense exam pressure, rote learning, and a gaokao-centred culture that can crowd out creativity and wellbeing.

The essay reviews research on the "washback" effect of exam-driven schooling, then surveys China's own corrective reforms: the 2021 ban on private tutoring, the Education Modernisation 2035 plan, teacher-quality programmes and the push for lifelong learning. The lesson for Iraq is not to copy either model but to note how seriously both Britain and China treat education as a national project under continuous, evidence-based reform.