Schools To Get Foreigner Subsidy

[attrayant]

Oops, I just remembered that a certain newspaper doesn't want their articles re-posted here, so I'm editing-out the text now.

Anyway, it seems that schools are due to get subsidies in order to "... [increase] the number of foreign teachers ... ". I keep hearing that there is an abundance of foreigners willing to teach here, that the market is saturated. Which is it?

And if a mod could fix the typo in my subject line that would be ever so nice.

Edited March 14, 2012 by attrayant

[Scott]

The Title has been changed--slightly--we aren't supposed to do that but hopefully Google won't notice such a minor change.

Does anyone know if the subsidy will include private schools or is it just for gov't schools?

What impact will it have on non-native speakers such as teachers from Indian and the Philippines? Will it include native-speakers who are subject teachers, such as Math, Science etc?

[chowny77]

From what I understand any native speaker from England, America, Canada, Australia and NZ will be eligible to fill in the forms provided for the schools by their local education offices. Any teacher not from the mentioned countries can also fill in the forms and the school may recieve 5,000 baht per head. The dead-line for the forms was around the 27th of April. I think it is also only open to government schools, not government schools with a MEP program or private schools as they are seen as having enough cash from student intakes. Also when my school contacted the MOE in Bangkok the officer there did say it would be down to the school if they released the money to the foreign teachers or for them to pocket the extra cash themselves.