I'm not an expert in that field but my experience in science suggests that this influence is quite strong and not always beneficial, especially in science and advanced information processing.
Here are just two points. On the one hand, I have in mind an almost complete lack of basic philosophical training/education for scientists. And at the same time, I'm talking about an almost complete 'instrumentalization' of science, which is responsible, among many other things, for the lack of basic progress in artificial intelligence and information processing in general (due to the lack of proper understanding of the task at hand).
So not only have the European science (and culture) suffered enormously as a result of World War II, but its following Americanization seems to have further undermined the older critical traditions and educational standards.
The American Higher-Educational System actually is model of anglo-saxon system of United Kingdom. Therefore this system originates from a EU-member State. According to all available statistics the Universities promoting anglo-saxon system are at the higest rank-list positions. Really these rank-lists are often strongly perturbed from the political and economical factors, but common for the top 50 Universities is that they are also among the richest ones operating with significant subsidy. Therefore the quality of the science is closely related with the funding policy, independently is given University is public and/or private one.
Tthe largest part of EU-Universities, excluding UK's ones are public, and if has damage from the good scientific traditions somewhere, this is a result of the disbalancing policy of corresponding governments of EU-States.
Dear Lev
Greetings.
Each one of the Educational System is influenced to an extent by culture dependency... I am currently working on "Employability Issues of Engineering Graduates"... Good amount of literature survey indicates to me this issue is across globe, but solutions can not be unique, but best practices can be leveraged to suit.
I fear embracing one model from one region completely to the other region, will definitely be of great idea. My humble opinion 2 cents worth, as each one of the system is great and has a high value for that region and culture.
Kindest Regards
Ramanan
Dear Bojidarka,
Yes, "the American Higher-Educational System actually is model of anglo-saxon system of United Kingdom."
But we should also note that---although, for the above reason, UK educational system has been most resilient to the influence of US educational system---still, in the last several decades, the influence has proceeded in the opposite direction (and in this case it has been *somewhat* beneficial).
Dear Ramanan,
"My humble opinion 2 cents worth, as each one of the system is great and has a high value for that region and culture."
I'm afraid, I can't agree with that.
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I think what has been missing is the appreciation of a much lower role of education in general in the American culture compared, for example, with the prewar German (or even Chinese) cultures. Everything else is a consequence of this fact.
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