Bt40-million energy fund to boost distance learning at remote schools

By PICHAYA CHANGSORN 
THE NATION

 

MAE HONG SON-THE ENERGY Conservation Fund has provided Bt40 million to the Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) to support distance learning in remote areas through the Wang Klaikangwon School programme.

 

Launched 21 years ago, the royal-initiated programme is transmitted from Wang Klaikangwon in Hua Hin via 13 satellite channels to about 3,000 schools in remote provinces. However, about 10 per cent, or some 300 schools, have no access to electricity and cannot use the satellite and TV equipment provided.

 

The ENCON Fund responded by allocating Bt40 million to OBEC to fund a project to install solar systems at the remote schools under Wang Klaikangwon School’s network.

 

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This fund could aim to start study in the not-remote places too. Or another fund may do that. 

Good move if the students taking the distance learning are organized and managed well by a classroom proctor.

Some sort of Open-University might also be worth trying, making inexpensive higher-education more-available, to anyone who wants/needs it ?