NRSA reviews education development plans

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NRSA reviews education development plans

BANGKOK, 14 March 2016 (NNT) – The National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) has begun reviewing reform of education quality and seeking ways to externally evaluate education to ensure that institutions are efficient as well as independent.

At the latest NRSA meeting, the assembly began review of reforms to improve the nation’s education Urgent issues brought up in a report involved ensuring the quality of education both in and outside of academic institutions as well as how to drive scientific, technological and innovation studies.

The report presented to the NRSA suggested that the 4th scheduled external evaluation of academic institutions be moved out by 2 years to allow for the development of education as well as evaluation standards. Plans for education development currently state that the system will be overhauled for 1 year and will undergo trial for 3 years. The plan has yet to convene opinion meetings or launch appropriate research.

The NRSA agreed with the suggestions, but noted that education standards should be just and straight forward and that evaluators must be fit for the task and adhere to international standards.


-- NNT 2016-03-14

[thesetat2013]

Why do they bother. If they make changes then their is a slim chance that it will be followed further down the line at the teacher level. Then the students have no concern for this as well since their new one allows for stupidity since they cut most of it out bringing happiness to the kids.

[Eric Loh]

The education system is so bad that you need an overhaul and not review or piece meal patch-up. Start with a well trained, experienced, bold, innovative and educated with the proper qualification Education Minister.

[kannot]

morons preaching to idiots , lets all pat ourselves on the back chaps

[kaorop]

The education system is so bad that you need an overhaul and not review or piece meal patch-up. Start with a well trained, experienced, bold, innovative and educated with the proper qualification Education Minister.

Thais with those qualities never end up in government positions that could affect change, and it would seem the complete opposite is the criteria.

[Eric Loh]

The education system is so bad that you need an overhaul and not review or piece meal patch-up. Start with a well trained, experienced, bold, innovative and educated with the proper qualification Education Minister.

Thais with those qualities never end up in government positions that could affect change, and it would seem the complete opposite is the criteria.

That complete opposite is the current Education Minister who is a career military General. We don't expect a General to know much about education, much less about reform. The only time I heard about a need for education overhaul was from Chaturon Chaisang, previous Eucation Minister.

[sharecropper]

Do they still have to sing the National Anthem, recite the 12 Core Values and get it drummed into them that their teachers are always right and should not be questioned, as they're spoon-fed fatuous, nationalistic rubbish?

Maybe there's some stuff in there they could fix.

[phoenixdoglover]

Let's procrastinate, so we can make a plan, to do an evaluation, so we can formulate a course of action.

The NSRA is mile wide and an inch deep on many of these topics.

[Rhys]

Let's procrastinate, so we can make a plan, to do an evaluation, so we can formulate a course of action.

The NSRA is mile wide and an inch deep on many of these topics.

inhale.......ya.. good one... exhale..555

[tbthailand]

Meanwhile, outside of the rarified atmosphere of the NRSA & the CDC, real educators are complaining about cutting 3 years off the guaranteed primary education program... An amazing accomplishment even for a bunch of self-appointed clueless HiSo's....

ELS pointed out that unlike the 1997 and 2007 Constitutions in which the youths are entitled to receive 12 years of free schooling, the new draft constitution, under the first paragraph of Article 50, reduces it to only nine years of compulsory education.

http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/5933

[kannot]

Meanwhile, outside of the rarified atmosphere of the NRSA & the CDC, real educators are complaining about cutting 3 years off the guaranteed primary education program... An amazing accomplishment even for a bunch of self-appointed clueless HiSo's....

ELS pointed out that unlike the 1997 and 2007 Constitutions in which the youths are entitled to receive 12 years of free schooling, the new draft constitution, under the first paragraph of Article 50, reduces it to only nine years of compulsory education.

http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/5933

Thats how long it takes them to learn those 12 core values and then 8 years marching up and down

[NongKhaiKid]

Are they saying there actually are education development plans ? Wow !

[Lunchbob]

It's kind of funny in the sense that administrators are one of the main problems in universities, yet they are the group supposedly creating solutions.

Some of the problems are just so basic. For example, they schedule classes to begin and end at the same time.

Another example, groups of students always stay together and move from class to class.

A final example and I will step out: too many students in a class. They have 70 or 80 students in a listening/speaking class.

[tuanku]

Thai academia promotes an `ideal’ of education based on faux morality and a self-sustaining, essentially anti-intellectual culture. As a popular social media post, that received many `likes’ among my Thai university colleagues says, “Many people are educated, but not totally mannered mannered”. Well, here’s my view: “Many people are `mannered’, but by no means educated.” As long as `polite’ ignorance is preferred to passionate skepticism, genuine enquiry will be shouted down by false virtue, and demons will be allowed to lurk in the shadows, where best they thrive. Students, learning by example, whatever their innate capacities or potential, will become dull and (eventually) as ossified and pointless as their teachers – who taught them dullness in the first place.

http://kyotoreview.org/yav/dysfunctional-thai-academia/

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[kannot]

Are they saying there actually are education development plans ? Wow !

ohhhhhhhh.............. youre so uneducated