Pros/cons of UK education system

[Shewhobecamethesun]

Hi, long time mumsnetter here, but also a midlife trainee teacher (I've been a TA and unqualified teacher for the last decade though so not new to the sector and see a lot of fault with it). Tomorrow at uni we are having a debate with someone from the department of education about the state of the "british" (I assume this means English though, but feel free to advice me over Scotland) education system especially in comparison to our European neighbours.
I've been asked to prepare of list of pros and cons but I've mainly written cons, so was wondering if anyone could help me out with itv some suggestions? Feel free to tell me everything that's wrong (I think the focus is on the students though, and not the wellbeing of teachers. Workload will have to wait for another day)
Cheers

Free child care?

I mean we provide free child care so parents can work, not that staff get free childcare.

But we are such overpaid childcare. Honestly they should just hire 18yr olds on minimum wage, could save loads of dosh. It's wasted on the working class

No education system is perfect and there are many positive to the British education system.
But in the British education system, students get away with a lot and the pressure is mainly on teachers.
I am talking about mainstream schools and not independent schools where there might be more pressure placed on the child to sit exams ( such as 11 +) and excel academically.
In your bog standard comprehensive students get away with doing very minimal work and I have noticed teachers getting the blame if their classes are doing badly.
Maybe this is my experience, but if a class is doing badly some schools have a tendency to blame the teacher rather than recognise that students are not actually studying at all.
I also find the students very spoon fed and the learning style can be quite formulaic. Also, teachers in the UK have to do lots of extra things like duties and clubs, the workload is higher than other European nations. I think its because in the UK nobody trusts teachers to get on with their work so they are constantly observed by SLT and Looming OFSTED and they need to show data for everything

For me, a pro was being allowed to study just three subjects post 16. I am very good at a small number of things and so it allowed me to excel in those and not be distracted by other subjects.