Cut students a break over Covid-19, universities asked

By THE NATION

 

 

The government has asked institutes of higher education to lower tuition fees and other fees to ease the financial burden on students and their parents while the Covid-19 situation persists.

 

The request came from Suwit Mesinsee, Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation on Wednesday (March 11).

 

He also asked them: 

 

• to lower rental fees for six months for entrepreneurs operating businesses on their premises

• to reduce their own remuneration and management expenditures and use the savings to hire students or outsiders to work on the campus

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30383942

 

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Seems to be a mixed response from the unis here at the moment as some seem to be just trundling on as usual and some are going online with teaching for a bit. Once there are a few cases of corona at the unis then they will have to all go online or close for a bit ...places like this are petri dish central. They are caught between a rock and a hard place as the students have all paid up and cancelling the term would cause a storm of brown stuff. I heard from a teacher that even going online is unpopular with the students. 

What an inane set of suggestions from the so-called Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation. Doesn't he understand that university standard on-line courses can't be be created overnight? And even if so, I would suggest that most Thai lecturers have had no training and therefore have little knowledge of how to manage an on-line program. The result would be sham grades, but perhaps no different to the normal ones anyway. Mesinsee has had his moment in the spotlight, so perhaps he needs to crawl back into his cave.

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

to reduce their own remuneration and management expenditures and use the savings to hire students or outsiders to work on the campus

Lol