3,000 “ICU” schools to be upgraded next year

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3,000 “ICU” schools to be upgraded next year

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Education Ministry plans to improve the academic performance or 3,000 schools across the country to be classified as “ICU” urgently required development, said Education Minister Thirakiat Charoensetthasilpa on Wednesday.

 

The Office of Basic Education Commission has been assigned to select the 3,000 “ICU” schools which are urgently required support to upgrade the academic performance of the students. It will find out the needs of the school and to fill them up.

 

The minister said that if the efforts are successful in upgrading these schools, more schools will be chosen for development in the following years.

 

The minister had a discussion with senior officials of the Office of Basic Education Commission on Wednesday on how to improve academic performance of Thai students after the release of PISA 2015 result which shows Thai students perform poorly in tests in mathematics, science and reading.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/3000-icu-schools-upgraded-next-year/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-12-22

[hanuman2543]

If marching, singing the National Anthem and reciting the "12 Core Values" would be tested next time, Thailand would top the sheets of the next PISA study.

Edited December 21, 2016 by hanuman2543

[Somtamnication]

The entire Department of Education are in ICU, coma more like it. 

[PatOngo]

Students will be able to download the fun "ICU" (I See You) app on their free issue tablets.

[arthurboy]

Utter, utter propagandist drivel from the MoE. It lacks the expertise, resources and desire for this or any other major, useful change to education standards and teaching in Thailand.

 

The rot is complete. The only thing that will come out of this is yet more budget for someone to play with, which is exactly the point.

 

 

[CelticBhoy]

Just have a look at the state of that bloke in the picture.

If that's the head of the MoE then the kids here have no chance.

[lostinisaan]

Artificial intelligence will replace the teacher. 

[bluebluewater]

3 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Students will be able to download the fun "ICU" (I See You) app on their free issue tablets.

I have not heard much about the tablets lately.  Whatever became of all of that?

[PatOngo]

54 minutes ago, bluebluewater said:

I have not heard much about the tablets lately.  Whatever became of all of that?

 

There's one in a pawn shop near you.............

[zyphodb]

Yeah right.....  

[Briggsy]

It would take a massive cultural shift for the Thai educational system to move from being

 

politically-driven (the control of the national syllabus and its reflection of power structures within the country)

behavioural-based (this is the "correct" way to do things, authority should not be questioned or challenged)

endemically corrupt (the priority is to steal budgets and put the squeeze on parents' wallets, results are deprioritised)

 

to being

 

performance-driven (focused on maximising students' potential measured by external objective entities)

accountable to and responsive to the needs of the nation (creating a school-leaving population with cognitive skills)

[maewang99]

one little problem with this.  I'm a retired software engineer.

let's put it this way... there is a reason why Mark Zuckerberg ****and**** Bill Gates.. and let's throw in Elon Musk as well... for sure! ........ are almost just as famous for their book reading lists as they are for software IT.... with Tesla and SpaceX more dependent on AI software than wheels or rocket engines.

and reading... is what made Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk... if you listen at all to any of their self told stories of success for more than 5 minutes..  not the Hollywood movie stuff.

and I cannot imagine coding in any generation of coding languages.. OS platform... without prodigious reading.. and.... do I even need to connect any more dots? I don't think so!      

and yes, this post is spot on the topic.  100% spot on.
 

Edited December 22, 2016 by maewang99

[Srikcir]

4 hours ago, lostinisaan said:

Artificial intelligence will replace the teacher. 

Does a toaster count as AI?

[mtls2005]

The absolute last thing the greens and yellows want is an educated populace.

[bangon04]

"Next Year"  ??

 

"The minister said that if the efforts are successful in upgrading these schools, more schools will be chosen for development in the following years. "

 

so upgrading will take only a year.......lucky the problem is not too serious.

 

until the next Minister of Education starts the job...

 

meanwhile much "mulling" and consultation.

Edited December 22, 2016 by bangon04

[licka]

7 hours ago, CelticBhoy said:

Just have a look at the state of that bloke in the picture.

If that's the head of the MoE then the kids here have no chance.

He may be one of Thailands  3 Stooges a popular comic act straight out of the 50's

[Cake Monster]

Artefical Intelligence IS the teacher.

The teachers employed at the moment are surely not of this planet, but are from Zod or some other strange universe.

 

[TPI]

11 hours ago, arthurboy said:

Utter, utter propagandist drivel from the MoE. It lacks the expertise, resources and desire for this or any other major, useful change to education standards and teaching in Thailand.

 

The rot is complete. The only thing that will come out of this is yet more budget for someone to play with, which is exactly the point.

 

 

Even the Education Minister blamed the poor result in the PISA tests on the students, he complained that they didn't use the students (from the elite schools) who had been trained to pass the tests, he also complained that the students from the lower class schools had let the side down by not studying harder! 

[debate101]

ICU? How about triage? Give all teachers, administrators, and educational bureaucrats education theory and general problem solving tests, cut loose the bottom third, and force the middle third to study their tails off to keep their positions. Entice promising graduates to replace those let loose with loan forgiveness. 

[lostinisaan]

3 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

Artefical Intelligence IS the teacher.

The teachers employed at the moment are surely not of this planet, but are from Zod or some other strange universe.

 

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      You seem to be very arteficially educated. 

[lostinisaan]

9 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Does a toaster count as AI?

 

 

 Do a lot of TVF members have a high IQ? 

 

         

ar·ti·fi·cial in·tel·li·gence

noun

 

1. the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.