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BANGKOK, July 21 -- Thailand's Ministry of Education has sped up its education reform plans, focusing on teacher quality development, education management system and instructional practice.

Permanent-secretary for Education Suthasri Wongsamarn told journalists on Monday that the conclusion and suggestions at a meeting held to discuss educational reform roadmap Saturday with concerned parties will be proposed to the Head of Social Psychology Division of the army-led National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) at the end of July.

The roadmap will then be put into action, focusing on teacher quality reform, including raising teaching standards, solving teachers’ debt problems, solving teacher shortages, followed by education management system and instructional practice reforms, with the national budget for the education reform projected at Bt502.245 billion for the 2015 fiscal year. (MCOT online news)

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Vocational Education Commission proposes 6 measures to stop student fights

BANGKOK, 21 July 2014 (NNT) -The Vocational Education Commission has submitted six strategies to prevent fighting among vocational students, to the NCPO and is cooperating with other countries to improve the educational standard.


The Permanent Secretary for Education Suthasri Wongsamarn has set up a meeting with the Ministry of Education’s administrators to discuss improving vocational education standards and solving quarrels among vocational students following the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)’s policy.

He revealed that the ministry has collaborated with Germany, Singapore, China and Japan to study and find out the best model to improve the vocational education system in Thailand.

As for the fighting problem, six measures have been created to prevent the issue, including requiring each vocational school to be responsible for their own specific areas, monitoring risk zones with the authority, risk zone ranking, making a blacklist of students who always initiate crimes, visiting the students on the list at home and contacting Internal Security Operations Command for help if any crime or fight occurs.

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I repeat. How much is it going to cost the parents? Will the reform reduce what they are already forced to pay for after hours instruction? Who is going to foot the bill for this reform?

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Very, very few countries have the faintest idea what the purpose of 'education' is, let alone what it might comprise.

It ranges from education by numbers in the US through to "made it up on the skating rink" (and then changed it next year) in the UK.

There seem to really only be two models that 'work': the Chinese/South Korean slaughterhouses...and they have their reasons for that and the Scandinavian models

Be a wonderful contribution to human life if Thailand could come up with an education system that allowed for students to acquire the good things of Thai culture, along with academic/scientific/technological excellence.

I wonder why I am not hopeful?

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You ever see the O net test here. The English is terrible with misspellings. They have to start from the A, B C;s. In fact the General need to send the whole Ministry of Education to Government House to inactive post.

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You ever see the O net test here. The English is terrible with misspellings. They have to start from the A, B C;s. In fact the General need to send the whole Ministry of Education to Government House to inactive post.

Was that your best English, Bob?

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There are too many different books and subjects used in Thailand.

To properly reform Thailand and make all people love each other, All Thai student should only strictly follow a single curriculum issued by Gen Prayuth. In this way, all Thai will be united with a single thinking.

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Easy.

Just issue all Thai student with exactly the same uniform, so they cannot tell which school they are from (Mao's method)

Better still, rename all schools using a single name such as "Youth Training Camp" (Hitler method).

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Until a big percentage of them are allowed to fail every year, nothing changes. 5-10% of them should get an A, and onward down the grades, until below 40 gets no grade at all.

If no one fails, how is the real cream supposed to float to the top, because it ends up mixed in with all th s**t floating around too.

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"The roadmap will then be put into action, focusing on teacher quality reform"

Now all they need to do is focus on reforming the archaic Thai culture which places family status above quality educationwai2.gif wai2.gif wai2.gif

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There are too many different books and subjects used in Thailand.

To properly reform Thailand and make all people love each other, All Thai student should only strictly follow a single curriculum issued by Gen Prayuth. In this way, all Thai will be united with a single thinking.

Maybe they should print and distribute a Thai little Red Book...........

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including raising teaching standards,

Scrap rote learning for all but math. Completely change the way the students are taught, change the mindset of everybody so that teachers can be questioned, they can be wrong, change the title from teacher to educational aider.

Pay decent wages so that not only the Isaan poor want to work as a teacher.

solving teachers’ debt problems,

Pay decent wages so that not only the Isaan poor want to work as a teacher.

solving teacher shortages,

Pay decent wages so that not only the Isaan poor want to work as a teacher.

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trainman34014, on 21 Jul 2014 - 17:58, said:

Solving Teachers debt problems ? What has this got to do with quality teaching or education in general ?

I like / absolutely agree with this comment, because:

- Teachers, right now, expect the focus to be on them ( repeat three times ,,, 'on them'...).

- In reality the focus should be on what builds / maintains quality education, proven by realistic assessments of what the students have learned, and their displayed abilities.

There are of course the ongoing subjects of :

- Do teachers have the knowledge and the skills to teach in a different, student centered process, which is aimed at developing thinking & analytical skills and discussion skills.

- Are teachers paid appropriately.

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There are too many different books and subjects used in Thailand.

To properly reform Thailand and make all people love each other, All Thai student should only strictly follow a single curriculum issued by Gen Prayuth. In this way, all Thai will be united with a single thinking.

Maybe they should print and distribute a Thai little Red Book...........

Red is the wrong colour.

Yellow would be better.

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Thais love to bandy around "critical thinking." While they have no clue as to how to structure or organize thoughts. It is appalling to observe Thai university seniors at top Thai universities struggle through figuring out how to organize a one or two page summary of something even about Thailand. Asked to respond what do you think about this in reviewing an assignment, Thai seniors look about atb each other dumbfounded as to how to articulate even the most simple assignment.

Thais love to mention "creativity" as a Thai fundamental but have no sense whatsoever as to what creativity is all about. Asked to do basic marketing projects like a Starbucks case study or an Intel case study on simple marketing fundamentals, they can express absolutely no creativity in their writing, their English grammar is virtually unreadable and unless they write what they have memorized, they are completely lost.

They have a long way to go in understanding the essence of education let alone the teaching standards and quality of the teachers at earlier ages.

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As usual the phrase ' speed up ' is used to show something is being done but this is not something that can be rushed.

The system is wrong from top to bottom and needs very careful consideration to come up with sound proposals.

Then the problem is implementation including overcoming the guaranteed opposition from vested interests within the educational establishment and that won't be easy.

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How many years they been saying this?

Jumping fifty years into six months is a little difficult , like trying to down 45 Leo's in half an hour.

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