Schools To Teach Science And Maths In English Next Year

[Loaded]

Already discussed here

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Schools-Teac...gl-t321780.html

but an important topic for teachers in Thailand and maybe there should be discussion here as well.

It looks like many more jobs next year.

Schools to teach science and maths in English next year

By The Nation

Published on December 14, 2009

At least 500 schools to teach science and mathematics in English next year, Education Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said.

"They all are the leading schools under the Basic Education Commission," Jurin said recently.

Other schools could follow if they had the resources to do so, he said.

"Not all science and math classes must be taught in English next year. But at least English should be the language of instruction for some classes," he said.

"The schools must make the decision based on their level of preparedness," he said.

The ministry was not pushing the schools to teach all science and math classes in English because a similar initiative by Malaysia failed to deliver good results, he said.

The policy was a part of the ministry's Bt6.5 billion plan to create "quality" schools at the tambon, district and provincial levels.

At the local level, quality schools would have good facilities, a decent library and at least one personal computer per 10 students.

-- The Nation 2009/12/14

[Scott]

Usually, the same topic running in two forums isn't permitted. I'll check with those further up the ThaiVisa food chain and see if we can have it here.

It is important to teachers and the importance is specific to this forum. The crux of the issue is whether they are talking about foreign teachers teaching science and math or whether they expect Thai teachers to teach in English. My guess is the latter.

[Scott]

This topic will be closed for now and posters are requested to post here:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Schools-Teac...gl-t321780.html

It's quite confusing for people to be posting in two forums. Thanks Loaded for bringing it up. It's certainly important to this forum as well.