Friend of mine wants to do this. She has the money, but I think she is not aware of any of the beurocracy involved.

Can any one shed some light?

if the teacher is a farang it's not going to happen,all kind's of red tape .

If yo want to do anything worthwhile and provide any sort of actual good service and education, she will probably be denied somehow.

OP you don't say whether she is in fact a teacher or not, Thai or farang, or what type of school. We have a English speaking pre school about 30 km from here, Thai wife teacher and farang husband teacher plus staff all qualified teachers. So it is possible, but not easy. Jim

She is a Thai. She wants to open language school She wants to hire me to teach.

All Thai women have the same ideas, and about the same amount of acumen when it comes to actually executing them.

She is a Thai. She wants to open language school She wants to hire me to teach.

and your qualifications are?

Bump this post back to life.

I also have a Thai friend that asked me about opening a language school. I told her from what I gathered it would be very difficult, especially if I did it. This topic has come up (again) recently in the teaching forum. Some of the posts there suggest a language centre as opposed to a school, any means to keep as much MOE and other bureaucracy out of it as possible to make it easier.

So if it's just a business, say a tutoring business with no educational connections, would it indeed make it easier for a Thai to open this business and employ farangs and Thais?

I would most likely work there, at least in the beginning to help get it running. My creds: BA in English, minor in Linguistics; MA TESOL; experience working in US public schools, taught at an EP in US and very little in China, studied second language acquisition and TESOL curriculum/program design, finally moved to Thailand (been here a few times before)