Many high school students in Taiwan will have a more colorful answer than usual to the question “What did you do during your summer vacation?” when they return to the classroom in the fall. A good number have spent the holidays protesting against new history textbook guidelines rather than having fun, and last week some […]
Alcoholic drinks may not be sold within 300 metres from a school or educational institution, according to an announcement to take effect soon. The rule also applies to grocery stores and convenience stores but not wholesale facilities. Read more: Bangkok Post
Directive sent after UK embassy warned convicted paedophile applied for teaching job in Thailand School administrators have been told to run background checks on foreigners applying for work as teachers to weed out convicted paedophiles, an Education Ministry official said Monday. Read more: Bangkok Post
CHAINAT – A homemade bomb exploded and injured an eleven-year-old girl while she was cleaning her school grounds in central Thailand this morning, police said. According to police, the fifth-grader at Wat Thammamul School in Mueang district was assigned to clean the area around the school with a broom stick and came across a black-wrapped […]
The director of Triam Udom Suksa Patthanakarn Lamlukka School in Pathum Thani has been temporarily removed after more than 2,000 students called for his expulsion on Monday, accusing him of mismanaging the school’s finances. The junior and senior high school students demanded that director Sathorn Sombun, who was appointed over a year ago, be transferred […]
BANGKOK — The director of a public school in southern Thailand has been transferred from her post after barring Muslim students from wearing hijabs in school, a government official said today. The director of Baan Nai Yong School, Wisutsri Yungpongsapat, had claimed that the traditional Islamic head coverings violated state regulations for student uniforms. Read […]
PATTANI – A commander of the Thai army admitted yesterday that a military intelligence unit had mistakenly identified a summer lesson at a Muslim school in the southern province of Pattani as a terrorist conference. The admission came after soldiers raided the religious school, which locates in the Pattani’s office of Central Islamic Committee of […]
A school in Songkhla’s Sathingpra district was ordered closed five days after an outbreak of the hand mouth foot disease that has hit at least six pupils while several more are being monitored. The school director, Dr Ratchata Thamcharoen, said the school was closed so that it could be sprayed with disinfectant to prevent more […]
