Thai Education Minister focuses on ‘intensive care unit’ schools

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Minister focuses on ‘intensive care unit’ schools
By Chularat Saengpassa
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- IN A BID to support the government’s Thailand 4.0 vision, Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin has set his sights on upgrading older elements of the educational sector.

 

“I have recognised that there have been wide gaps among schools. I have noticed that so many schools will fall into the Thailand 1.0 version, if a categorisation were made,” Teerakiat said during an interview with Suthichai Yoon.

 

Suthichai, a former adviser to Nation Multimedia Group’s editorial board, conducted the interview for Suthichai Live Anywhere Anytime programme on NOW26. The interview took place after Teerakiat was named the new education minister in the middle of last month.

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has been pushing for the Thailand 4.0 goal for a long time. The Thailand 4.0 vision has even been integrated into the 12th national economic and social development plan, which is scheduled for implementation between 2017 and 2020.

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30303708

 

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[Srikcir]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

I have noticed that so many schools will fall into the Thailand 1.0 version

So I will redesignate schools as 4.0 version.

Direct deposit my performance bonus.

[PatOngo]

Minister focuses on ‘intensive care unit’ schools

................the slow drip?

[Krataiboy]

If the educational system is so bad that large sections of it require intensive care, shouldn't some pertinent questions be raised about what successive Education Ministries have been doing with one of the largest per capita education budgets in the world, let alone south-east Asia?

 

What on earth have they been spending all that taxpayer money on to get such appalling results?  One suspects the obvious in a country where graft is endemic.

 

 

 

 

 

[debate101]

Hmm, let's get Thailand out of the ICU first, shall we? Then maybe we can talk about the schools.

[debate101]

Economy on life support, civil society on a ventilator, rights and freedoms in a death spiral, etc, etc, etc...

[opouri]

Isn't it time to restructure the whole system put in new people with vision and start with teaching the basics Take away the retail shops and printing and make the Ministry about Education only. Only way to make change is to clean out the dead wood at the top first.

[bangon04]

surely all they need is a little bit of good quality "ear medicine"

 

[seajae]

the schooling in Thailand is designed to keep the people uneducated, any child wanting to actually get good grades needs to go to after school learning because they learn bugger all at school. Our daughter has had to take 2 weeks off school because her teacher decided to go on holidays so her whole class was given 2 weeks off, thai education as absolutely sh*t

[surangw]

seems a diploma from a thai school only has meaning in Thailand ( and not much even there)

[chowny77]

I am teaching at a vocational college and most students have almost zero grasp of English but my job is to teach them subjects such as commerce and tourism. There are some students who understand but most just look at me with their mouths wide open. I have now decided to just try and teach them basic English which I can then use with what their textbooks require. It is going to be an upward battle if Thailand truly wants the kids to understand English. Luckily I do have a private 9 year old student who I know could surpass people 20 years her age because her parents care and foster the use of English at home in the form of music and films.

[chilli42]

They don't have any teachers to advance the education system.  Without excellent quality teachers nothing else they do will matter.