All sides needed to help enhance education sector: MOE

Tanakorn Sangiam

 

BANGKOK, 31 August 2018 (NNT) – All parties are needed to help enhance Thailand's education sector and human resources, said Deputy Education Minister Udom Kachintorn. 

He delivered a lecture on the topic of education management to boost the country's competitiveness during a seminar held by the Office of the Education Council. 

He said the enhancement to Thai children's education at all levels will require an education system which allows students to realize their potentials and determine their own future, with teachers providing guidance and help, while all classes will need to be adjusted to allow students to learn from outside activities, and promote critical and innovative thinking through hands-on practices. 

He admitted that previous management by the Ministry of Education as the sole organizer of education had been unsuccessful, though the current constitution clearly stipulates that the education will be provided through cooperation from all sides, such as the private sector, while the upper education sector can act as mentors to schools to upgrade the educational standards.

 

 

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42 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

while the upper education sector can act as mentors to schools to upgrade the educational standards.

More nonsense ........ the upper education, ie; universities are just a larger, more populated version of the primary schools and secondary schools dotted throughout Thailand.

 

The same disorganisation and mai pen rai attitude is still highly prevalent in the Uni's and plagiarism is ingrained in them. Nothing will change when there is no oversight and everything continues to be done for show and no substance. It is sad to see and experience.

It's high school where it all goes wrong. If this guy wanted to help fix things then sort out the Mathyom years by having better teachers (average Thai high school teacher is just useless), stop the nationalistic cultural brainwashing nonsense and use internationally recognized methodology plus spend time productively. By the time scooter boy and girl gets to university it's pretty much too late and all consider it as an extension of high school, might as well call it  Mathyom 7, 8, 9 and 10. Also, it has nothing to do with money, they throw vast sums of money at education and it's still a disaster. 

52 minutes ago, thequietman said:

More nonsense ........ the upper education, ie; universities are just a larger, more populated version of the primary schools and secondary schools dotted throughout Thailand.

 

The same disorganisation and mai pen rai attitude is still highly prevalent in the Uni's and plagiarism is ingrained in them. Nothing will change when there is no oversight and everything continues to be done for show and no substance. It is sad to see and experience.

 

Part of the uni picture above is that in many very Thai universities and even in 'more prestigious universities, and even in English language program, many of the Thai professors will not allow questions or comments from the students (a continuous of the pedagogy used in primary and high schools). This is very common in Bachelor programs and in quite a few masters programs. 

 

 

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

All sides needed to help enhance education sector

A statement of the bleeding obvious if ever there was one. 

Education needs all the help it can get but it won't be getting it from this selfish military government. 

In this year's budget military spending got a boost so as to maintain national security.

Salaries for government fatcats remains high while funding for education at places of learning (no money for books) and for the improvement of health services suffered accordingly.

This is a cold uncaring government that is concerned more about maintaining it's position of power rather than providing essential services for the people. 

 

"...All sides needed to help enhance education sector: MOE..."

 

What an utter idiotic ass-covering piece of nonsense.

 

"...He admitted that previous management by the Ministry of Education as the sole organizer of education had been unsuccessful..."

 

THIS is (finally!) an admission of where the real problem is, and THIS is where it needs to be fixed. The Ministry of Education has been running the Education system in Thailand for a long, long time and has made a complete cock up of the whole thing. 

 

"All sides needed to help enhance education sector"? Nope, not yet. If there were a push to fix the education sector now, the same dead-weight that screwed it up in the first place would still be there to screw it up all over again. The only way that Thailand can expect to see improvements in its Education system is to take a chainsaw to the head office of the Ministry and take out at least the top one hundred people there. Next, there needs to be a chainsaw taken to each and every Provincial Education committees/centers and take out at least the top ten people there. Finally, it needs to take a chainsaw to regional and/or local Ministry of Education administrators and just go mental.

 

Then, and only then, can the reforms begin.

 

I have said it before and will say it again; the single greatest strategic threat to the future well-being of the Kingdom of Thailand is the Ministry of Education.

 

 

If able to read and speak English proficiently, young Thais could open a whole new world for themselves on the internet. As of now they are severely limited in expanding their knowledge and world view which in turn inhibits critical thinking. It appears that there are segments of Thai society which embraces this intellectual blackout.

The main problem with the Education Ministry, like the army, police, etc etc they all come through the same system and benefit from that system. A few quotes for the press from time to time is not going to make them change anything. They have got to the top and will maintain that system for others to come. 

The real purpose of Thai 'education' is to keep the masses unquestioning, uncritical, and stupid - and TOTALLY unaware of the bigger world out there.

 

The CONSISTENT 'failure' of every single Thai government in living memory to improve Thai education is not accident or unfortunate decision-making infra-structure: it is implicit or explicit POLICY by the controllers of Thai society - who do not want a well-informed, critically-thinking populace.

 

Yes, they will talk about it, all right - but we all know that the words of Thais (in official positions) very, very rarely bear any resemblance to the truth.

 

I repeat: the purpose of Thai education is specifically NOT to educate the Thais.

 

Edited September 1, 20187 yr by Eligius

All they need to do is keep the military training that they started before for the kindergarteners and then up the line till they graduate university. Obedient is all the Fat-heads at the top want. 

2 hours ago, Eligius said:

I repeat: the purpose of Thai education is specifically NOT to educate the Thais.

 

Yeah...ironically, the Thai education system is actually very good at doing what it was/is designed to do, which is, as you say, keeping them all in servitude and obeying the overlords who need a slave labour force. Always makes me smile when certain folks ramble off about critical thinking etc. in schools as when they leave university the jack boot of reality comes down on them hard and they are told/shown their position and what to think/when to speak. Until the spectre of the patronage system is done away with, then can forget it. The education system here is one of the most resilient to, and scornful of, change...my guess is that ultimately they don't want it changed and everyone is on too good a gig to facilitate any real thought on it as they are entitled to leech so much out of this country. It will take a couple generations or so to fix and a massive national screw-up where they end up having no choice.

Worst education system in the world. 

What a load of pie in the sky crap of wishful thinking and genuine impossibilities. Good luck!

Enhance. Definition.

How does this literally translate from oligarchical Thai rhetoric speak? 

Edited September 1, 20187 yr by zzaa09

This is a country where you buy your way to the top. Education has nothing to do with it. It's all about money and connections and that's the way they want to keep it. True Third World thinking.?

21 hours ago, Eligius said:

The real purpose of Thai 'education' is to keep the masses unquestioning, uncritical, and stupid - and TOTALLY unaware of the bigger world out there.

 

The CONSISTENT 'failure' of every single Thai government in living memory to improve Thai education is not accident or unfortunate decision-making infra-structure: it is implicit or explicit POLICY by the controllers of Thai society - who do not want a well-informed, critically-thinking populace.

 

Yes, they will talk about it, all right - but we all know that the words of Thais (in official positions) very, very rarely bear any resemblance to the truth.

 

I repeat: the purpose of Thai education is specifically NOT to educate the Thais.

 

The mushroom system has worked successfully for decades, Why change now? Keep them in the dark and feed them BS!