Thai-Buddhist teachers in three districts of Narathiwat on Tuesday refused to work following reports that muslim insurgents are now targeting the Buddhist teachers. An informed source said four Buddhist teachers at four schools in Chanae, Rangae and Joh I Rong districts, instead reported to the central authority in the province. The schools there opened as […]
PATTANI, Dec 12 – Thailand’s teachers in the besieged southernmost provinces, represented by their Teachers Federation, on Wednesday endorsed a collective decision to close all schools in the provinces one day after presumed insurgents entered a school in Pattani and killed a teacher and the school principal. The two teachers were shot dead while they […]
BANGKOK, Dec 11 – Thai students fare poorly in mathematics and science mainly due to the teaching method of rote learning rather than by comprehension and analysis, according to a senior educator. Precharn Dechri, deputy director of the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology, said today that Thai students’ disappointing performances in […]
NARATHIWAT, Dec 4 – Teachers in this risk-escalated province in Thailand’s deep South are to meet urgently tomorrow to discuss mounting unrest and attacks on their colleagues after a second fatal shooting of a woman teacher on Monday. It was the second murder of a teacher in this besieged province in less than two weeks. […]
Fire broke out a Pattani school early Thursday morning, completely destroying a two-storey building housing the director’s office, computer rooms and 11 classrooms. Ten students and teachers were camping in the building opposite when fire broke out at about 1am at Bangmaruet School in Panare district but no one was injured. Read more: The Nation
Violence continued in Thailand’s deep southern province of Yala on Tuesday, with hundreds of schools in the region remaining closed on Tuesday as teachers’ associations protested the government’s failure to tackle insurgency problems. President of Teachers’ Federation in Narathiwat, Sanguan Indhrarak said that if the problems remained unsolved, more schools would be closed. Read more: […]
A school director was fatally shot near her school as she was driving to a funeral in Pattani’s Nong Chik district yesterday. Nuntana Kaewchan, 51, of Banta Kamcham School was shot in the face and torso. She was taken to a nearby hospital but succumbed to her injuries there. Read more: The Nation
A Grandmother complained to journalists on Thursday about allegations of assault by a teacher on her 7 year old grandson who attends a government-run Pattaya School. The incident is thought to have occurred on 5th November and the teacher has been identified as Khun Natagan aged 51. Evidence of severe bruising on the child’s shoulder […]
