Which Countries are Top in Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Education Attainment

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Sunday — April 16, 2017

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I have already posted the countries with best higher education system, best universities of the whole world and each country individually and many other rankings like subject wise, international students’ population wise but what today I am sharing with you is entirely different from all others and even more important than them. I have told you that which country’s higher education system is top but the question here is what the education system is if students don’t attain it and it doesn’t affect their cognitive skills.

In this article I am sharing knowledge of the countries that are top in attaining the education and that have the highest of cognitive skills. This index today here proves that no matter how big your syllabus, university or teachers’ salary is or how big of a brand you are; doesn’t mean that they learn the most and are most skilled. You must have heard the story of Harvard’s debate team lost by a debate team of prisoners. Following are the countries that not only provide the quality education and knowledge but with that assure that students actually learn everything and students don’t just go the straight path like world but try new innovative approaches in life.

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Our today’s education system is solely dependent on making students memorize what has already been discovered or invented and then they are tested about how much of it they remembered. Students that spend most time memorizing or have good memory get the best grades in exams and are considered most intelligent. This is what is wrong with our education system. We should definitely give students knowledge but with the purpose of producing the ability of thinking outside the box that make them intelligent enough to discover or invent what has not been yet. Here are the countries that have realized this fact to some extent and have proved to produce the best of the skilled students. Following are the countries and their global index rank of cognitive skills and education attainment.

3 - Singapore:

Singapore is one of the best study abroad destinations of Asia. Singapore has been providing quality education to international students for many years. No one ever expected Singapore to be third top in global index of cognitive skills and education attainment as in higher education system strength ranking of QS it was ranked 21^st. Though its overall HESS rank may not be very good but still it is home to one of world’s most top higher educational institute, National University of Singapore that is ranked 12^th best university of the world.

2 - Japan:

Very famous for its technology and discipline, Japan was ranked 2^nd top country in global index of cognitive skills and education attainment. Though many people were shocked this accomplishment of Japan, however, I was not as Japan has the best school education system of the world. They teach students every necessary subject, make them disciplined by different practices like regularly cleaning the classroom and use innovative methods of teaching students to bring out their creativity. In the HESS rank of QS, Japan is ranked 10^th best country of world.

1 - South Korea:

As always calculated, everyone was sure that United States of United Kingdom would be on top of this list. However, South Korea has proved all these misunderstandings wrong that people confuse with brands. Korean higher education system is ranked 9^th best of the world. In Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment rankings, Korea was ranked most top. Korea was ranked 1st for ICT

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Country	Overall	Cognitive Skills	Educational Attainment
South Korea	Rank 1 1.30	Rank 2 1.35	Rank 1 1.19
Japan	Rank 2 1.03	Rank 4 1.20	Rank 6 0.70
Singapore	Rank 3 0.99	Rank 1 1.65	Rank 33 -0.33*
Hong Kong-China	Rank 4 0.96	Rank 3 1.34	Rank 18 0.20*
Finland	Rank 5 0.92	Rank 5 0.99	Rank 4 0.79
United Kingdom	Rank 6 0.67	Rank 8 0.52	Rank 2 0.96
Canada	Rank 7 0.60	Rank 6 0.77	Rank 15 0.25
Netherlands	Rank 8 0.58	Rank 7 0.57	Rank 7 0.58
Ireland	Rank 9 0.51	Rank 10 0.49	Rank 10 0.55
Poland	Rank 10 0.50	Rank 16 0.33	Rank 3 0.85
Denmark	Rank 11 0.46	Rank 17 0.32	Rank 5 0.75
Germany	Rank 12 0.41	Rank 12 0.48	Rank 14 0.28
Russia	Rank 13 0.40	Rank 9 0.50	Rank 21 0.19*
United States	Rank 14 0.39	Rank 11 0.49	Rank 20 0.19
Australia	Rank 15 0.38	Rank 13 0.43	Rank 13 0.29
New Zealand	Rank 16 0.35	Rank 21 0.23	Rank 8 0.57*
Israel	Rank 17 0.30	Rank 14 0.35	Rank 22 0.18*
Belgium	Rank 18 0.28	Rank 15 0.33	Rank 18 0.20*
Czech Republic	Rank 19 0.27	Rank 20 0.28	Rank 16 0.25
Switzerland	Rank 20 0.25	Rank 23 0.20	Rank 12 0.35
Norway	Rank 21 0.21	Rank 27 0.02	Rank 9 0.57
Hungary	Rank 22 0.17	Rank 19 0.28	Rank 24 -0.04
France	Rank 23 0.17	Rank 18 0.29	Rank 26 -0.07*
Sweden	Rank 24 0.17	Rank 25 0.15	Rank 17 0.22
Italy	Rank 25 0.11	Rank 24 0.20	Rank 27 -0.08
Austria	Rank 26 0.10	Rank 22 0.22	Rank 29 -0.13
Slovakia	Rank 27 0.09	Rank 29 -0.14	Rank 11 0.54
Portugal	Rank 28 0.04	Rank 26 0.13	Rank 30 -0.14
Spain	Rank 29 -0.08	Rank 28 -0.09	Rank 25 -0.06
Bulgaria	Rank 30 -0.26	Rank 30 -0.39	Rank 23 0.01*
Romania	Rank 31 -0.44	Rank 31 -0.62	Rank 28 -0.08*
Chile	Rank 32 -0.79	Rank 34 -1.06	Rank 32 -0.26
Greece	Rank 33 -0.86	Rank 33 -0.83	Rank 35 -0.93
Turkey	Rank 34 -0.94	Rank 32 -0.68	Rank 38 -1.46
Thailand	Rank 35 -1.16	Rank 35 -1.09	Rank 37 -1.30*
Colombia	Rank 36 -1.25	Rank 36 -1.56	Rank 34 -0.64*
Argentina	Rank 37 -1.49	Rank 40 -2.14	Rank 31 -0.20*
Brazil	Rank 38 -1.73	Rank 39 -2.06	Rank 36 -1.08*
Mexico	Rank 39 -1.76	Rank 38 -1.78	Rank 39 -1.73
Indonesia	Rank 40 -1.84	Rank 37 -1.71	Rank 40 -2.11