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OECD and Unesco formulate education-policy advice for Thailand

The Nation

 

FOR THE first time, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Unesco have joined forces to provide education-policy advice to a country - and Thailand is the beneficiary.

 

The two international organisations spent several months researching and conducting field visits and interviews with stakeholders before concluding a review of Thailand's educational sector and making recommendations. 

The review recommended establishing effective, efficient and transparent curriculum review and revision processes, led by experts and informed by research and data. 

Also, it suggested that Thailand establish minimum criteria for teacher preparation in consultation with programme providers.

The review emphasised that the success of Thailand's education system will increasingly depend on how well it uses its resources.
 

 

"Thailand's recent investments in education have not resulted in the expected outcomes, as seen on the PISA [Programme for International Student Assessment] results, which were below those of neighbouring countries," said Elizabeth Fordham, OECD senior adviser of global relations for education and skills, at a seminar on Thursday. 

The seminar took place in Bangkok, with the participation of representatives of Unesco and the OECD as well as high-level Thai officials, including Office of the Education Council's secretary-general Kamol Rodklai.

Education Council deputy secretary-general Watanaporn Rangubtook said, "The results of the review have encouraged policymakers and all stakeholders to reconsider issues related to the Thai education system, especially those relating to efficiency in education and how the Thai government can best provide students with quality education, the best teachers, coherent curriculum, and how we can most effectively harness ICT to reduce education inequality in the country".

The review covered four policy domains: curriculum; student assessment; teachers and school leaders; and information and communication technology in education. The domains align with the renewed emphasis placed on quality and equity by the Education 2030 agenda and, in particular, the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4.

Gwang-jo Kim, director of Unesco Bangkok called the review "a significant milestone in Unesco's longstanding cooperation with Thailand and our shared commitment in advancing quality education". 

David Atchoarena, Unesco Division for Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems director, said Thailand had ample opportunities to meet challenges. "Thailand's potential use of ICT to support students' acquisition of 21st century competencies and a revised curriculum that corresponds to student assessments are among the major elements needed to achieve the desired goals and keep pace with many of its neighbours in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community," he said.

ML Pariyada Diskul, assistant secretary to the Education Minister, said yesterday that the review would provide guidance to the Education Ministry and relevant agencies in translating policies into better educational quality. "We will have to do that in line with our social context and development directions too," she said. 

 

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[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

Foreigners telling Thais what to do, think this will not go down very well with the xenophobic Thais. 

[jamesbrock]

"Students are now suffering because policymakers failed to do their homework"

 

*crickets*

 

"Education Minister says Thai students lack critical thinking and English language skills"

 

*crickets*

 

"OECD and Unesco formulate education-policy advice for Thailand"

 

I can't wait to hear what that nativist nut job thinks of this!

[debate101]

Do you suppose anyone clued the field researchers in to all the corruption that goes on at every level, or was it all smiles and carefully arranged faces? 

 

You can make whatever assessments and proposals you want. The Thai civil cervants running the education show will continue to have no incentive to implement them. Public accountability is what is needed, of course, and is what they have been fighting tooth and nail, politically, for decades.

 

You know--PTAs with real power, locally-elected school boards, decentralization of administrative authority, merit-based and results-based advancement--basically the opposite of everything they are doing. Talk about pissing in the wind...

 

Education reform requires the MoE to give up power to the stakeholders--the public, the teachers, and the students. This will never happen as long as they are doing a political job for the powers that be. There is no reform going on, just "control, control, control." You support our politics, and we'll overlook and provide cover for you enriching yourselves at the public's expense. 

 

[BigBadGeordie]

 ML Pariyada Diskul, assistant secretary to the Education Minister, 

"We will have to do that in line with our social context and development directions too," she said. 

 

And there you have it, nothing will be done!

[debate101]

"social context" - We're Thai, so we don't have to consider the human rights of our people--certainly not the right to an education. That's all been neatly swept under the rug. Our social context means it's improper to ask big people to stop robbing the country blind and actually expect some performance from them befitting the responsibilities carried by their positions.

 

"development direction" - we're trying to develop as an autocracy, where social hierarchy and conformity are paramount. Education of the masses would threaten this, since people would start to think they knew better than their social superiors, and in many cases, they'd be right.

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

The most important fact has been ignored and that is that those who dictate education policy know they are failing, but will not fix it because it is supposed to fail.

[BSJ]

If Thai's spoke English like an Aussie it would be "Why are those foreign turds telling us how to do our business? "

[JAG]

2 hours ago, jamesbrock said:

"Students are now suffering because policymakers failed to do their homework"

 

*crickets*

 

"Education Minister says Thai students lack critical thinking and English language skills"

 

*crickets*

 

"OECD and Unesco formulate education-policy advice for Thailand"

 

I can't wait to hear what that nativist nut job thinks of this!

He probably won't understand it if it is written in English. 

[Lupatria]

Now I wait for the comment from one official explaining that neither the OECD nor the UNESCO are confirmed as "our uncles".