Education, Labor ministries to improve manpower development using Big Data

[webfact]

Education, Labor ministries to improve manpower development using Big Data

 

 

BANGKOK, 6th November 2018 (NNT) – The Office of the Vocational Education Commission (OVEC) and the Ministry of Labor signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on using Big Data analytics to connect and share information about manpower development and production planning. 

The signing ceremony was presided over by the Deputy Minister of Education, Gen. Surachet Chaiwong, on Monday. 

Gen. Surachet said the MOU is in accordance with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's policy to have the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labor integrate their information to push forward strategies on manpower development and production planning. He said the policy aims to further develop the country and promote investment, especially in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). 

Under this agreement, the OVEC and the Ministry of Labor will use Big Data analytics to exchange information on supply, demand, and productivity. Relevant agencies would use the information to come up with better manpower development and production planning. 

The Deputy Minister of Education said further that there will also be information sharing on education, labor management, educational planning, vocational skills development, and raising the standard of the workforce.

 

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[Phuketshrew]

Move over Big Joke, Big Data is coming.

[spidermike007]

The education ministry does not need big data. They need big brains. They need creative juice and they need humility! They need to be rebuilt from scratch. 

 

They are the laughing stock of the planet. 

[JAG]

If I may suggest a caption for the OP photograph: "Big Data needs IT - good oh, we're all getting new I Pads..."

[CALSinCM]

11 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The education ministry does not need big data. They need big brains. They need creative juice and they need humility! They need to be rebuilt from scratch. 

 

They are the laughing stock of the planet. 

I thought they needed big words, big headlines, and big photo-ops, followed by big awards and big cash handouts to big-wigs. 

[Srikcir]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

the policy aims to further develop the country and promote investment, especially in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). 

But Big Daddy Japan says its 30,000 skilled workers short in its investment in the EEC.

A strategy to exchange information on supply, demand, and productivity doesn't create skilled workers.

[Sir Dude]

This is a total facepalm. They do not need big data...what they need is the retraining of Thai teachers in high school so that when a student gets to university after 12 years of studying English in a classroom they are not confused by someone saying something about the present simple, which is subject+verb 1, or being able to respond to a simple question.

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, Sir Dude said:

This is a total facepalm. They do not need big data...what they need is the retraining of Thai teachers in high school so that when a student gets to university after 12 years of studying English in a classroom they are not confused by someone saying something about the present simple, which is subject+verb 1, or being able to respond to a simple question.

 

So true. Occasionally I am approached by young kids who want to practice their English. It is so refreshing. So bold and assertive. But what percent do something like that? Most are beyond timid and scared to death to try. How on earth can they learn anything without giving it a whirl in the real world? Guess most are not taught to be bold and fearless! 

 

Part of the issue is that most of their English teachers barely speak any English, unless these students are fortunate enough to get a foreign teacher. But then they are back to an inadequate, unmotivated, arrogant, self important Thai teacher the next year. 

Edited November 6, 2018 by spidermike007

[Cadbury]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Ministry of Labor signed a memorandum of understanding

Memorandum of Understandings are getting to be as fashionable as committees these days. Both are meaningless gestures and have no outcomes. Good for a bit of backslapping and glad handing and a plateful of prawns but that's about all. 

[timendres]

Looks like they are finally upgrading from kilobytes to megabytes. Impressive.

[Redline]

Big data, smart city, cash free, 4.0, hub, blockchain, cancer cure, AI, medical hub...

So, the education system is crumbling, less people are speaking English, discipline is lacking, little Thai expertise, little pay incentives for foreign firms, unsafe roads and stressed broken infrastructure...

 

I keep observing, looking, hoping, wishing, almost praying, but nope, not happening.  It seems the government is in one big meeting that throws around words and ideas but nothing grounded in reality.  If you cannot create competent people, you need to import them and pay them respectful wages-boom!