Social development
Education and training
Muslim students demand answers over loans
Around 300 Muslim students from the southern border provinces arrived at the Army Area 4 head office in Nakhon Si Thammarat to seek his help over their requests for educational loans.The students said they came from the unstable three southern provinces to study in Nakhon ...
The Nation Reporter
Reforms needed to fix Thai schools
Despite all the lofty goals and tremendous effort made to improve the state of Thai education recently, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s military government has failed to bring about essential reforms. When the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) seized power in May 2014, its ...
Advice lacking for sexually active teens
Of the 84,578 girls under age 20 who gave birth last year, 2,559 were between 10 and 14, according to Mahidol University’s Centre for Health Policy and Management.The provinces with the highest number of new mums age 15-19 were Prachuap Khiri Khan, Tak, Chon Buri, ...
Poungchompoo Prasert
Merge small schools to boost education quality: WB
The World Bank is continuing its call for Thailand to merge its small schools in order to improve education.“Our research has found clear evidence that teacher shortage is a key factor behind the educational-quality problems,” Dilaka Lathapipat, a human-development economist at the World Bank, told ...
The Nation Reporter
Teachers-to-be can graduate with poor English, panel decides
A strong grasp of the English language will not be required of teacher-education graduates, the committee in charge of preparing a teacher qualifications framework has decided.“We have reached this resolution because most stakeholders at a forum on the draft Thailand Qualifications Framework (TQF) disagreed with ...
The Nation Reporter
Handbook of new standards coming for kindergartens and nurseries
To ensure up-to-par good quality in early childhood care and education at 53,335 kindergartens and nurseries nationwide, the Education Council is now in process of printing a handbook for distribution.The booklet will detail the “National Standard for Early Childhood Care, Development and Education in Thailand” ...
The Nation Reporter
Students need new format to meet challenge of disruptive tech
So-called disruptive technology is transforming almost every industry, meaning Thailand needs more innovative education methods if its youth are to meet new challenges at work.Citing the latest findings of leading Internet platform Sea Group’s survey on youth and entrepreneurship in Thailand and other Asean countries, ...
Nophakhun Limsamarnphun
Thai universities struggle to keep up
The year 2019 will be a challenging year for over 300 Thai universities as they struggle with two major challenges. The first comes from changes to the demographic structure of the country itself. Thailand is facing an unprecedented demographic challenge. Its population is ageing quickly, ...
Dumrongkiat Mala
Why Are Thailand’s English-Language Skills The Lowest in South East Asia? Blame The Education System
Since I moved to Thailand a decade ago, I’ve read report after report stating Thailand has the lowest standard of English skills in south east Asia and, in years, little improvement has been seen. As a former teacher, that fact didn’t surprise me at all. ...
Universities brace for the challenges posed by technology, demographics
The coming year will be challenging for Thai universities due to the falling birth rate, technological disruption and the fast-changing needs of students and employers, educators acknowledge.No longer does the number university applicants dwarf the number of available seats. Even if high-school graduates are denied ...
Chularat Saengpassa