Thai govt on course to achieve education reform for children

[webfact]

Government on course to achieve education reform for children

 

 

 

BANGKOK, 31 October 2018 (NNT) — A government-appointed committee in charge of education reform has been working on the implementation of initiatives aimed at benefiting young children. 

The chairman of the committee, Dr. Charas Suwanwela, said on Tuesday that the new draft national education law is the ultimate goal of the country’s plan to overhaul the education system. 

Dr. Charas said that the draft law, if enacted, will enable local administrative organizations to play a role to promote education to all areas under their jurisdiction, especially for young children. 

He added that the draft law on the development of young children also demands special attention and care for all children, who are divided into four groups, including the prenatal stage, those newly born and aged up to three years, those aged between three and six years, and those aged between six and eight years. 

Dr. Charas went on to say that, under this draft law, all local administrations will be responsible for ensuring the public has accurate information about family planning, quality pregnancy and child care, as well as for providing essential and suitable welfare for pregnant women in their areas.

 

-- nnt 2018-10-31

[Pilotman]

I do like a good laugh in the morning, sets me up for the rest of the day. 

[kannot]

Indoctrination earlier....................great, keep marching them up and  down eh.

[GinBoy2]

7 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

I do like a good laugh in the morning, sets me up for the rest of the day. 

This is one of those stories where you don't know whether to, laugh, cry, or just pour a stiff drink.

 

But it's Thailand...another day, another hub, another proclamation.

 

It's all par for the course I think.

 

And tomorrow, next month, next year, absolutely nothing will have changed to actually 'improve' the dreadful quality of education

 

It's sad but depressing true.

 

Sometimes I honestly wish Thailand would shock me, and prove me wrong

[anon2736434]

6 minutes ago, GinBoy2 said:

Sometimes I honestly wish Thailand would shock me, and prove me wrong

Well starting at the bottom is always the way to reform something, but keep wishing, there is always hope. Not

[Ossy]

31 minutes ago, webfact said:

A government-appointed committee in charge of education reform has been working on the implementation of initiatives aimed at benefiting young children. 

What? . . . like trying a new ploy that might raise the levels of learning in Maths, Science and Reading to a level a little better than 75th out of 140 measured nations? After 4 1/2 years, the penny might have finally dropped . . . Thai education simply needs re-organising, re-motivating, re-staffing/managing and a unified and universally accepted and practised curriculum put in place, with the old 'rubbish' text books burnt and new material sourced, more than likely from other better-performing countries and which discourage the totally counter productive rote-learning practice. Teachers might actually have to think about teaching . . . for a change.

[Cadbury]

40 minutes ago, webfact said:

Government on course to achieve education reform

Every government initiative in Thailand is always on course. The problem seems to be that these master plans never seem to reach their destination.

[PatOngo]

I thought the "twelve core principals" were already in place. Known elsewhere as brainwashing!

[Ossy]

7 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

Every government initiative in Thailand is always on course. The problem seems to be that these master plans never seem to reach their destination.

Too true, my favourite chocolate, but as long as ini-shit-ives stand a 0.1% chance of garnering that extra vote or two, they'll continue to hit our fans.

[Dave67]

An early contender for the number 1 biggest bullshit Government announcement of the week

[DM07]

So now, there will be 12 new pillars of education...aaaaand that's it!

 

[BobbyL]

????

[kannot]

32 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

Every government initiative in Thailand is always on course. The problem seems to be that these master plans never seem to reach their destination.

The Thai education system/plan is circular.

[NCC1701A]

Thailand 2118:

 

"You want massage? Where you go?"

[colinneil]

The biggest step forward in helping kids get a better education would be to stop all the stupid nonsensical meetings/ seminars teachers love to go to, free food, accommodations, just an excuse to get out of doing their jobs, i.e. teaching kids.

Many times my wife gets a phone call... I need your signature on this paper, so i can go on a seminar, no thought about who is going to teach the kids, just get the signature then off on a fully paid jolly.

Edited October 31, 2018 by colinneil

[Lungstib]

Note that it discusses education "reform" but makes no mention of improvement. Quite how you reform education for prenatal's surely boggles the mind.  

[Chippy151]

50 minutes ago, Ossy said:

What? . . . like trying a new ploy that might raise the levels of learning in Maths, Science and Reading to a level a little better than 75th out of 140 measured nations? After 4 1/2 years, the penny might have finally dropped . . . Thai education simply needs re-organising, re-motivating, re-staffing/managing and a unified and universally accepted and practised curriculum put in place, with the old 'rubbish' text books burnt and new material sourced, more than likely from other better-performing countries and which discourage the totally counter productive rote-learning practice. Teachers might actually have to think about teaching . . . for a change.

That's possibly the most amazing thing about Thai education.

75th out of 140 countries for maths, science and reading.

That means there are 65 countries below Thailand. Wow!! What an achievement for those countries.

[Darcula]

On hearing this news, there were wild celebrations at kindergartens nationwide....

 

 

 

[RotBenz8888]

Sounds like they want to keep the people ignorant.  Most Thais, and probably most teachers, know nothing about the outside world. They think Africa is a country, all white people are native English speakers and have no clue of what went on during WW2. Suspect they once had a foreign consultant who pointed out this, that's why nothing has changed..

[scorecard]

Well OK, but what about some specific comment, details, about actual education? None.

[Fex Bluse]

Many of us suspect the pseudo-elite Thai are happy with the 90% of Thais being perfectly uneducated.

 

Keep most dumb and well-fed and send our own kids to uni abroad whenever possible simply to lord the status over the natives. 

 

But, they can't publicly admit it, can they? They need to pretend to be benevolent. The Asian way. 

Edited October 31, 2018 by Fex Bluse

[tominbkk]

No, they are not.

[yellowboat]

Until non Thais are invited to make suggestions, this is more of the same which is Nothing 

[Ossy]

4 hours ago, Chippy151 said:

That's possibly the most amazing thing about Thai education.

75th out of 140 countries for maths, science and reading.

That means there are 65 countries below Thailand. Wow!! What an achievement for those countries.

Ah-ah, Chippy151, don't be like that. They might be trying their hardest . . . a bit like Thailand, trying its hardest to look like the planet's biggest idiots.

[anon2736434]

1 minute ago, Ossy said:

That means there are 65 countries below Thailand

Lets compare those 65 countries education budget to thailands per student before you knock them.

[ReMarKable]

What? You mean cutting each school day by an hour didn't work?

[Ossy]

8 minutes ago, Notagain said:

Lets compare those 65 countries education budget to thailands per student before you knock them.

Steady on, dear, if you'd just calm yourself down a tad, you'll see that it was Chippy151 who made the '65 countries' point that you were so keen to jump on.

Like I say . . . just calm down.

[anon2736434]

Im calm dont know what you are on about. Maybe something about another thread you didnt like.

[Triton]

Recently I learned that Thai people are not allowed to ask question to teacher in School. It's a sort of Taboo. If a student don't understand what teacher teach and ask a question in class, teachers take it as an insult and other students see him/her as a black sheep. They have been like that all through 10+ years of all his/her education.

 

Now I understand why they say Yes, while understand nothing.

[anon2736434]

1 minute ago, Triton said:

Recently I learned that Thai people are not allowed to ask question to teacher in School

Many times a student wont ask because they have no idea what the teacher is talking about.