Social development

Education and training

Education ministry pushes for Environmental Education

The Ministry of Education is calling for the opening of more eco-schools to raise awareness of the need for world protection among schoolchildren.A conference on environmental education reforms was organized by Chulalongkorn University and the United Nations Environment Program as a brainstorming session among representatives ...

Tewit Kemtong

Universities must collaborate to meet huge EEC demand: Somkid

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak has urged Thai universities to join with overseas counterparts and the business sector in efforts to meet the huge demand for skilled workers in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).Keep reading ...

Dumrongkiat Mala

Education Ministry targets short-term occupational courses

The Education Ministry directed vocational schools to create short-term programs to quickly train workers for industries targeted by the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor project.Deputy Education Minister Kanokwan Wilawan told educators meeting at the First Pacific Hotel and Convention Center Aug. 5 that schools should create ...

Govt to offer courses on dairy and rice farming

The Education Ministry’s Office of the Education Council (ONEC) held a workshop on Friday to brainstorm over guidelines for providing vocational courses in rice-growing and dairy-farming to boost the qualifications and competency of workers as part of the government’s “Smart Farmers” programme under its Quick ...

The Nation Reporter

Primary schools to start teaching coding: deputy education minister

Many of the public primary schools will start teaching coding in the second semester of the current school year, Deputy Education Minister Kalaya Sophonpanic said.She said the Education Ministry will not force some 30,000 schools nationwide to teach coding but would allow and support the ...

The Nation Reporter

Is Thailand ready for a third language?

Thailand’s Ministry of Education recently revealed that it would push for the inclusion of a third language: coding (computer programming language) into its school curriculum. Deputy Education Minister Kalaya Sophonpanich was responding to the proposal of teaching coding at schools from Future Forward MP Kulthida Roongruangkiat ...

Education minister considering use of e-books in schools

The Education Ministry is considering having students use e-book readers instead of textbooks, after a girl in Khon Kaen suffered a spinal deformity doctors suspect was caused by shouldering a heavy schoolbag.It had not been concluded that the weight of the books was the only ...

Bangkok Post Reporter

Education Ministry to push for coding as third language for Thai students

Thailand’s Ministry of Education will push for the inclusion of a third ‘language’, coding (computer programming language), in the curricula of Thai students, from kindergarten level if possible, said Deputy Education Minister Kalaya Sophonpanich on Friday.Keep reading ...

Maths lags in innovation race

The government should put more effort into improving children’s mathematics skills to handle changes in the current world, an academic said, amid signs that the country is lagging regional competitors in innovation development.While science and mathematics are keys to innovation, there is big room for ...

Kornchanok Raksaseri

Education Ministry urged to see whole picture, instead of tackling problems on a case-by-case basis

Thailand’s education sector is like a mountain and the only way it can be reformed is if problems are solved after taking an overview instead of just handling issues when they arise, a former chairperson of the Independent Committee for Education Reform (ICER) said, as ...

Chularat Saengpassa

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