Education and training

Quality education is the catalyst to advance Thailand’s 4.0 objectives of social-well-being, environmental protection, economic prosperity, and enhanced human values. Despite the commodification of brand name education, we believe a comprehensive and concrete education at home, with educational opportunities across a global network, will do ...

Thammasat University has finalised the 5-billion-baht budget to develop infrastructure on its Pattaya campus in Chon Buri, supplementing the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) scheme. Keep reading ...

The ongoing transition of the educational sector into a new and hopeful era risk stumbling after a drastic move by authorities to cut the duration of the teacher-education programme back to four years, many experts warned. “Why will we undo the good changes that have ...

Thammasat University is keen on raising undergraduate student quality to prepare graduates for work in the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) scheme. Yesterday (Oct 18) the university signed a memorandum of understanding with the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) to develop many EEC-related fields: innovation, ...

Thailand hopes to learn and perhaps implement the highly successful educational reform of Finland, where nearly a third of the adult population was uneducated a mere six decades ago.  Today, Finnish education unarguably ranks among the world’s best. Keep reading ...

Teacher educators are re-examining their role in response to what they see as universities becoming increasingly focused on “money matters” rather than nurturing the best potential teachers.  “We are not in a position to seriously screen new students anymore. Frankly speaking, we recruit every applicant ...

The Equitable Education Fund (EEF) has recommended a new budget-allocation approach for the country’s education sector, after extensive research confirms inequalities “rage on” despite massive expenditures.Keep reading ...

Thailand’s coordination and administrative center for southern education is providing digital training to more than 3,000 educators in southern cities. On Saturday (Sep 22) , the center organized a training course for the second batch of 120 educators. The course was mainly focused on “Google ...

The private education market in Asia-Pacific is a rising investment segment, driven by the region’s demand for high-quality international schools with a focus on English curriculums, says a report by property consultancy JLL.Keep reading ...

The Independent Committee for Education Reform (ICER) has decided to add “digital tools” to its blueprint on overhauling Thailand’s education sector.Dr Jiruth Sriratanaban, who chairs ICER’s ad-hoc subcommittee on planning education reform, said yesterday that the digital tools were added to the plan after people ...