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surenchère éducative

English translation: excessive educational pressure

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French term or phrase:surenchère éducative
English translation:excessive educational pressure
Entered by: Paolo Dagonnier

11:44 Mar 1, 2017
French to English translations [PRO]
Education / Pedagogy
French term or phrase: surenchère éducative
"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!
Paolo Dagonnier
Belgium
Local time: 21:09
excessive educational pressure
Explanation:
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 ...


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B D Finch
France
Local time: 21:09
Grading comment
Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3excessive educational pressure
B D Finch
4 +1Educational arms race
Margaret Morrison
4educational overkill
Leslie Marcus
4educational one-upmanship
cchat
4overly-competitive system
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
4hothousing
Marianne Kavanagh
3education contest
katsy
3educational pressure cookers
Yolanda Broad


  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
educational overkill


Explanation:


Leslie Marcus
France
Local time: 21:09
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  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
  -> Good point! Totally agree.
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
educational one-upmanship


Explanation:
Another possibility.

cchat
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 199
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
education contest


Explanation:
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

katsy
Local time: 21:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 127
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
excessive educational pressure


Explanation:
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 ...




B D Finch
France
Local time: 21:09
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 121
Grading comment
Thank you.
Notes to answerer
Asker: I like this one because the document directly links the high suicide rates with the pressure students face at school. Thanks!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Leslie Marcus
36 mins
  -> Thanks Leslie
agree  Verginia Ophof
44 mins
  -> Thanks Verginia
agree  Victoria Britten
19 hrs
  -> Thanks Victoria
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Educational arms race


Explanation:
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)


    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/04/private-tutors-arms-race-schools-parents
Margaret Morrison
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: also suggests the potentially fatal outcome.
0 min
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
overly-competitive system


Explanation:
In context, I think it will be perfectly clear that "system" is with reference to the education system.

Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Local time: 21:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 148
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
educational pressure cookers


Explanation:
The metaphor of pressure cookers gets used a lot in the context of excessive pressure on people.

Yolanda Broad
United States
Local time: 15:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
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18 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
hothousing


Explanation:
Hothousing is the term frequently used to refer to excessive educational pressure.

Marianne Kavanagh
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
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