Thailand To Become A Hub For International Education

[MaiChai]

Prime Minister Yingluck said "(Thailand's) international education is second to none".

What a laughable story :lol::lol::lol:

I see she got her degree from ChangMai Uni (How much?) then attended Kentucky State .

Exactly; the foreign education was to bring it up to standard. She is lieing; it is second to most!

[lannarebirth]

I can't think of a country I would rather not have my children educated in.

This is up their with Suthep's "best justice system in the World" comments.

Remember, you only get as far in Thailand as your money will take you.

Correct. If you are an expat with children living in Thailand and you can't afford to send them to an international school (one with western accreditation) and a foreign university then you can't afford living in Thailand.

Edited September 28, 2011 by lannarebirth

[Boater]

did any of the former prime ministers get there education in thailand?

[PETDCAT]

Thailand is the Hub of one thing and one thing only. Take a stroll down Sukumvit or a trip to Pattaya and you will know exactly what that is.

[Boater]

I can't think of a country I would rather not have my children educated in.

This is up their with Suthep's "best justice system in the World" comments.

Remember, you only get as far in Thailand as your money will take you.

Correct. If you are an expat with children living in Thailand and you can't afford to send them to an international school (one with western accreditation) and a foreign university then you can't afford living in Thailand.

not everyone can afford 50K a month for a top notch international school, a 100K a month salary is good for an expt here, but putting half of that into education would make you broke

[nong38]

Amazing, Free noodles for anyone who can name the other members of the Asean group, you have 2 hours starting ...........now

[GreenSnapper]

Oh so true, it amazes me that when i ask how much for some item all over phuket and speak thai clearly and slowly they have to tap out on a calculator how much it is and show you, then when you give them say 300bht for a 295bht item they start tapping again to find out they need to give you 5bht ,and these are college grads, amazing Thailand.

Yes, amazing.

I don't know Thai schools or universities from inside. But from what I see daily here, it is amazing that even the simplest knowledge does not exist. Let them show you Myanmar, Cambodia or Laos on a map - they won't be sure.

Ask them who has heard of Angkor Wat. Maybe a few have - isn't that the temple which was built by Thai and rightfully belongs to Thailand?

And I could go on and on.

And the crap being a hub for international education comes from the prime minister. Not from some clueless journalist.

Having travelled in all SE Asian countries, I never saw a place with so many clueless people. Even Cambodia, after years of war, has better educated people than Thailand. Not to talk about Myanmar or Vietnam....

Edited September 28, 2011 by GreenSnapper

[lannarebirth]

I can't think of a country I would rather not have my children educated in.

This is up their with Suthep's "best justice system in the World" comments.

Remember, you only get as far in Thailand as your money will take you.

Correct. If you are an expat with children living in Thailand and you can't afford to send them to an international school (one with western accreditation) and a foreign university then you can't afford living in Thailand.

not everyone can afford 50K a month for a top notch international school, a 100K a month salary is good for an expt here, but putting half of that into education would make you broke

A Thai doctor friend of mine did just that. I trust his judgement that it was good value and worth doing.

[uptheos]

Not to talk about Myanmar or Vietnam....

Burmese students crave education. They have been starved of it for so long, that they will attend classes run by foreigners day and night, in order to become educated. Put a Burmese and Thai student together with equal ops and I guarantee who would be a clear winner.

I know Burma was colonized, but when you hear a Burmese person speak English, it's spoken correctly and understandable, unlike their Thai counterparts.

[Arkady]

How can it be an educational hub when the state system of education, including their best universities of Chula and Thammasat, is all complete rubbish? A few very expensive international schools, most of which only take day pupils, doesn't make it that. There needs to be a tradition of excellence in education that ensures the potential of all is realised no matter how poor they may be. For the ruling elite of all political shades it is an article of faith that this should never be allowed to happen, as well educated ordinary people will never vote for any of those shysters.

[Thaddeus]

Hubris.

(again)

[SAffer]

why are there so many private schools should be the quesition ? , and it is because the thai education system is rubbish !

From what I've been reading the last couple of days the private schools are equally rubbish, but because they're private and fee paying, people feel (hope) they might be getting something a little different for their money.

In fact it may be even worse than public schools, if they too have a no fail policy.

Seeing as these schools need happy students and parents... to get their tuition fees; the teachers are once again in a position where they have to please the customer, not educate the child.

This is the big problem with all the Unis here in Thailand (and there is no shortage of those either).

[janverbeem]

They can't even manage to educate their own citizens,yet they want to educate other nationality's.

Or maybe they were only understood wrong and they meant to say that Thailand is the hub of students that get their education somewhere international.

[wpcoe]

did any of the former prime ministers get there education in thailand?

I'm normally not an outspoken member of the grammar police, but in the context of the thread topic and the (well deserved, probably) strong criticism of the Thai education system and the abilities of the graduates it produces, I found that post a wee bit ironic.

[Phatcharanan]

Sacred Heart is one of those international schools isn't it? Perhaps the PM will attend the next Nazi dress up day and share her thoughts about Thai excellence in education. She should know better as she pursued her education outside of Thailand.

No it is not an International School.

[DaamNaam]

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<br />........the integration of the ASEAN nations will make it easier for foreign investors <br />who are raising their families <u><b>to consider Thailand their second home </b></u>........<br /><br />I thought we are only guests here....... <img src='http://static.thaivisa.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /><br />

<br />She means foreign investors who pump in millions/billions of baht, then the rules change.<br />However, she might be considering letting a foreigner buy a talang wah of land to build a dog kennel on.<br /><br /><br />

Only if the dog is Thai.

[bigbamboo]

If you want a good degree there is no better place than Thailand. It has some of the best money can buy.

Edited September 28, 2011 by bigbamboo

[fiddlehead]

All these negative posts about the Thai education system, yet the subject in the Original Post is about international schools in Thailand.

So, maybe reading comprehension was lacking in whatever schools most of the posters here graduated from. (???)

I believe it is not an easy job to teach in an internationals school.

1st of all, many of the students are not native English speakers and some start with none. So, that in itself is a real challenge for the academic admin people AND or course the teachers.

Then, I actually got to see some results lately as a friend of ours who went to 9 years of Montessori school in Phuket, graduated last year and went to middle school in America where she is excelling in many subjects, including math and science.

She is half Thai and can speak 2 languages fluently with a minor in Mandarin which was also taught at the school.

So, the way I see it, many of you are comparing Thai farmer's sons and daughters, some of them with only 4 or 5 years of schooling, to your family's children who went through western schools with everyone in the class a native English teacher and an agenda strong on geography, reading and writing English, science etc. (yet weak on art and music)

Hardly a fair comparison.

[animatic]

Amazing, Free noodles for anyone who can name the other members of the Asean group, you have 2 hours starting ...........now

Viet Nam, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei / Darussalam, Philippines, Cambodia.

[animatic]

If you want a good degree there is no better place than Thailand. It has some of the best money can buy.

Ah, but if you want the KNOWLEDGE, that is said to come with a degree... look elsewhere. There is a difference between pre-prep and prep schools and university systems of excellence.

In Thailand the ONLY choice for an expat if he expects his or her child to get accepted at a proper uni is to send them to these private schools. To advertise this as a Hub of foreign run schools for expat INVESTOR PARENTS just holds up the light on the real Thai school system, and the fact any Thai with the bucks will send their child to a western run private school.

Montessori schools were mentioned, at that makes the point even stronger, this is a western designed and run school, and the Thai style of teaching is NOT in evidence. So I guess the government is courting western investors and trying to convince them the wife and kids can come too and not be held back...

Hub of Hubris.

Edited September 28, 2011 by animatic

[philhal2]

W.A.F.J.

ROFL

MY OH MY

[toenail]

???? There are "fake" international schools in the big cities of Thailand that will use the label; yet 90% of the students are Thai...and the teachers are Thai with some Filipino teachers --maybe a "token" of a couple Western teachers (blond hair and blue eyes a plus). Then there are the legit international schools that make them authentic because 1) they are accreditied with an education foundation back in their home country 2) their teachers have "real" work permits which means they had to show their credentials and teaching certificates to the government 3) they have experience teaching -most with a masters 4) the student body is 60% or more non-Thai.

[KeyserSoze01]

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. At first I was sure this was from notthenation.com, but obviously they are serious. Seriously deranged.

[yoshiwara]

There are a significant number of foreign universities which would just love to set up shop in Thailand. The problem is the company rule which states that a Thai company must be Thai majority owned. Ownership of the university name is something the foreign unis cannot lose, so a stalemate has been in place for years. Any statements about Thailand being an educational hub require policy changes and not just a banging of the drum.

Edited September 28, 2011 by yoshiwara

[surangw]

"Thailand is the only country in the world with the largest number of international schools."

and a degree from any of them does not amount to diddly squat outside of thailand

[REM]

So Thailand has good private schools for the farang and rich Thais, but that says nothing about then public schools. Thai schools are still a joke! Let's see a minister or Madame Shinawatra send her dearly beloved to a public school! It wouldnbe a Miracle Thailand!

[Thaddeus]

"Thailand is the only country in the world with the largest number of international schools."

and a degree from any of them does not amount to diddly squat outside of thailand

Without the consummate bribes and nepotism they are worth about the same inside Thailand.

[Payboy]

their teachers have "real" work permits which means they had to show their credentials and teaching certificates to the government

Seriously doubt that.

[nong38]

I looked on the ncyclopedia for top educational establishments and this is what I came up with:

The Pattaya School of Adult Entertainment.

The Ladies of E S A N Academy for the studies of Financial Wealth, its origins and and how to re distribute it.Advancesd scholars could see the results in hours!

Bangkok 7-11 University.

Chon Buri College of advanced Massage Techniques.

The Phuket University of Life and social skills. Meet friends you did not know you had and spend a small fortune.

The Sukumvit Escort School for people new to the Kingdom.

[harryfrompattaya]

Thailand is the only country in the world with the largest number of international schools what sort of "gobbeldigook" is that? They talk about education and yet are not even competent in the use of the English language.

This is new English get with the times.

You see Thailand already number 1

Edited September 29, 2011 by harryfrompattaya