By Chatchai Mongkol |
<p>Students have criticized schools’ haircut rules by holding demonstrations, submitting online petitions and sending out tweets as schools have not changed their rules in line with the Education Ministry’s latest policy.</p>
By Chatchai Mongkol |
<p>While a vaguely-written core curriculum leads schools and educators to a non-ideal teaching approach to English, teachers say the bigger problem that fails students is the surrounding environment and attitudes toward English.</p>
By Chatchai Mongkol |
<p>The Covid-19 outbreak has added to the uncertainty of university graduates’ struggle to find a job as unemployment soars and government solutions are just not enough. Academics urge state-funded training and employment projects.</p>
By UNICEF Thailand |
<p>UNICEF has issued a statement after the alleged sexual assault of two teenage girls at a Mukdahan school by their teachers and the school’s former students was reported in the media last week, raising concern about the lack of protection for children in schools and calling for the authorities involved to reinforce their efforts to ensure prevention of violence in schools and to ensure that the survivors are protected.</p>
By Yiamyut Sutthichaya |
By Harrison George |
<p>To judge from the cracks and potholes, the soi hasn’t been resurfaced in decades. Maybe not since the emergency makeover when a daily motorcade of Mercs began transporting royal offspring to the school nearby.</p>
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<div>Citing the need for education reform, the junta has invoked Section 44 to allow outsiders to serve as executives in Thai universities.</div>
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<div>On 8 August 2017, the Royal Gazette published <a href="https://prachatai.com/journal/2017/08/72715">NCPO Head Order No. 37/2560</a> called “The Solution for Problems in University Administration”. </div>
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<div>The order claims that problems in the selection process for university executive positions have led to inconsistency, inefficiency and obstruction of national education reform.
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<p dir="ltr">How much room is there to learn about revolution in Thailand’s education system, a system facing mounting criticism for preaching obedience over creativity? Today, on the 85th anniversary of the 1932 Democratic Revolution, few students are likely to remember the arguable birth of democracy in Thailand.</p>
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<p>Military staff have joined the orientation of a prestigious primary school, but online criticism seems to have led to removal of all images from the school’s websites.</p>