i understand at the moment teachers in goverment school's can reetie when they have 25 years service.

is the goverment trying to change the law? please give me information.

thank you.

Alan.

i understand at the moment teachers in goverment school's can reetie when they have 25 years service.

is the goverment trying to change the law? please give me information.

thank you.

Alan.

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What makes you think someone is trying to change the retirement provisions??

i understand at the moment teachers in goverment school's can reetie when they have 25 years service. is the goverment trying to change the law?

Why, after 25 years of service, would any teacher want to retire!? A teacher's salary starts out kinda low but increases every year so after 25 years they are making a lot of money, yes? Seems like they'd be fighting to not retire. Are you sure this new law isn't going to force them to retire?

According to a couple of Thai teachers I know the Government is trying to cut their Education budget by pushing teachers to take early retirement. The goals are to get 10% to 15% (if my memory serves me correctly) of the current crop of teachers to retire each year. As teachers who are near retirement age earn a lot more than new teachers (about 30K vs 8K) the government could save a lot of money by pushing these mass retirements.

Given the fact that young Uni graduates can earn more money in business than in Education, schools are having a hard time getting replacements for the retiring teachers!

In Thailand, it doesn't matter if you are talking about a Government School, a Private School or an English Language Company; saving money is universally considered to be more important than giving the students a quality education.

On the other hand, the younger teachers are often better educated than the older teachers, so some good might come out of this scheme after all.

When the teachers retire they get their full pay when they retire, as far as I know.