The Philippines has a 97.5% literacy rate and a cultural obsession with university degrees. Most job candidates have at least a degree, and those with only high school education face stigma and are pushed toward low-status work like nannying or manual labor.
The Philippines has very, very high education rates, and not just lower education, but actually university level education. They have a very high literacy rate. The literacy rate in The Philippines is 97.5%, which is exceptionally high, especially for an emerging economy. Then higher education is very highly valued in the Philippines. When you go looking for people to hire, when you're looking for a company that's hiring people, almost every person you will find has a university level education. And this isn't just like pretend university. This is actually, this is actually elementary school and middle school and high school and senior high school, which was implemented a number of years ago and then three or four years of university education. University education is so highly valued in the Philippines that often they consider someone with only a high school degree as only qualified to be a nanny or a manual labor worker. It's kind of sad, but people with just a high school education are very much looked down upon in the Philippines because of that. The drive to get a higher education is significant and the ease of finding really highly educated people is really easy.
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