Education Ministry finds fund dispersal issues

  

BANGKOK, 17 August 2016 (NNT) – The Ministry of Education has detected funds earmarked for assisting primary level school students being used to pay school water and electricity bills and has moved to have the Office of Basic Education (OBEC) more clearly distinguish funding to ensure spending is as intended.

Minister of Education Gen Dapong Rattanasuwan disclosed after holding a meeting on monetary assistance for primary school students, officials have discovered that a portion of the earmarked funds were being used to pay school utilities bills. The spending comes despite OBEC conditions stating no more than 5 percent of the funds can go to utilities payments. The minister has ordered that the office more clearly separate the funds. 

At the same time, the minister discovered that over 300,000 special needs students were not receiving the care they required. He has ordered that more assistant teachers and special materials be prepared and that OBEC’s Disabilities Fund find more sources for monetary assistance. He has tasked that the improvements take place as soon as the beginning of the second semester this school year. 

 

-- nnt 2016-08-17

Seems so little money makes it down to level of students from huge ed budgets. I guess they believe in "trickle down economics"

I am very impressed.  how folks in Bangkok are able to manage such a huge school system.  in the USA we don't even try to do it. it's not even done at the state or county level, in fact, it's about as local as local things get.  and just for curiosity's sake, are these orders from Bangkok translated into the local regional languages as well or only disseminated in Central Thai?   

Edited August 17, 20169 yr by maewang99

They may be only at Primary School level, but it seems the affected students are already getting practical experience on the impact of creative accounting (even if they don't understand the theory)!

 

I guess all this creative accounting explains why the money allotted by the government for foreign English teachers never finds its way to us poor saps. That might also explain why the salaries are actually going from 30 000 a month to 25 000 a month. After all the cost of electricity is following the cost of living index, but apparently our salaries aren't.

Edited August 17, 20169 yr by LazySlipper

The Ministry of Education has detected funds earmarked for assisting primary level school students being used to pay school water and electricity bills

On a positive note.....they will learn to charge their free issue tablets and wash their hands!

25 minutes ago, maewang99 said:

I am very impressed.  how folks in Bangkok are able to manage such a huge school system.  in the USA we don't even try to do it. it's not even done at the state or county level, in fact, it's about as local as local things get.  and just for curiosity's sake, are these orders from Bangkok translated into the local regional languages as well or only disseminated in Central Thai?   

The same system that allows State and school bodies to print books that rewrite history or declare absolute truths about the origin of man.

..the tip of the iceberg.....

Head teachers do alright on there salaries,I see a few with very big houses and expensive cars 

2 hours ago, maewang99 said:

I am very impressed.  how folks in Bangkok are able to manage such a huge school system.  in the USA we don't even try to do it. it's not even done at the state or county level, in fact, it's about as local as local things get.  and just for curiosity's sake, are these orders from Bangkok translated into the local regional languages as well or only disseminated in Central Thai?   

The problem is as you pointed out BUT the US system is not what I would call working either.  The issue here is that unlike in Canada and the UK and the US for the most part the schools are run by the government and sanctioned as such.  In Thailand especially at that Anuban level they are run as profit making systems mush as nurseries are.  The  current rules do not state that you have to have a great system only that the kids pass and "learn and pass tests"

 

4 hours ago, whatproblem said:

Head teachers do alright on there salaries,I see a few with very big houses and expensive cars 

It's not just their salaries.  It's called salaries+

2 minutes ago, Redline said:

It's not just their salaries.  It's called salaries+

 

2 minutes ago, Redline said:

It's not just their salaries.  It's called salaries+

And what's the + for ? Plus scams 

4 minutes ago, whatproblem said:

 

And what's the + for ? Plus scams 

Additional charges yes

the plus is the money that students have to pay the teachers to actually teach them, otherwise they have to go to one of the many out of school learning facilities where the teachers actually do their job to get the extra money

 

1 hour ago, whatproblem said:

 

And what's the + for ? Plus scams 

 

That's the cost of the no fail policy!