Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
surenchère éducative
English translation:
excessive educational pressure
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Paolo Dagonnier
Mar 1, 2017 11:44
7 yrs ago
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surenchère éducative
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"Conscient du problème, l’État sud-coréen tente de freiner cette surenchère éducative."
This comes from a text about the education system in South Korea and how hagwons (private evening classes) are causing a high suicide rate in the country. Thanks!
This comes from a text about the education system in South Korea and how hagwons (private evening classes) are causing a high suicide rate in the country. Thanks!
Proposed translations
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Proposed translations
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excessive educational pressure
Possibly even "educational pressure cooker".
www.nytimes.com/1986/04/22/science/about-education-preschoo...
... to do as much for poor children, but many experts warn that placing children in an early educational pressure cooker can do serious harm.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1845285646
Tanith Carey - 2014 - Family & Relationships
In today's educational pressure cooker, teachers, heads and parents also feel they have no choice but to play the system. More teachers are being censured for ...
www.nytimes.com/1986/04/22/science/about-education-preschoo...
... to do as much for poor children, but many experts warn that placing children in an early educational pressure cooker can do serious harm.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1845285646
Tanith Carey - 2014 - Family & Relationships
In today's educational pressure cooker, teachers, heads and parents also feel they have no choice but to play the system. More teachers are being censured for ...
Note from asker:
| I like this one because the document directly links the high suicide rates with the pressure students face at school. Thanks! |
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Comment: "Thank you."
10 mins
educational overkill
Peer comment(s):
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B D Finch
: That would be a really good idea, if it weren't for the association in the ST with actual suicides.
9 mins
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Good point! Totally agree.
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14 mins
educational one-upmanship
Another possibility.
19 mins
education contest
not sure that this is "educational", but just to do with education.... or what is seen as such in this particular context - a kind of race to get the best places in educational establishments
+1
1 hr
Margaret Morrison
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Educational arms race
Education or tutoring arms race has been used in media (in region as well, eg Straits Times, so think can be safely free of unfortunate geo-political overtones)
Reference:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/04/private-tutors-arms-race-schools-parents
2 hrs
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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148
overly-competitive system
In context, I think it will be perfectly clear that "system" is with reference to the education system.
14 hrs
Yolanda Broad
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Fren & Span to Eng, a ProZ Pro!
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28
educational pressure cookers
The metaphor of pressure cookers gets used a lot in the context of excessive pressure on people.
18 days
Marianne Kavanagh
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United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
Social Sciences, Education & Legal texts
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Works in: French to English, English
hothousing
Hothousing is the term frequently used to refer to excessive educational pressure.
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