Insurgents on Thursday planted an explosive device at a Narathiwat school then triggered it when the bomb squad arrived at the school, but fortunately no one was injured in the incident. Administrators of Ban Kawa School in Sungai Padi district suspended all classes for the day following the explosion. Read more: The Nation
City police Thursday rounded up 41 students at Krungthon Technology School from a crowded bus in front of the Dao Khanong Market in Bangkok’s Thon Buri area. A search found 25 students were carrying knives, which they claimed was for self-defence against rival students who often ambushed them. Read more: The Nation
Pathom 1 students in eight provinces are set to get their hands on tablet computers under the government’s One Tablet Per Child (OTPD) project very soon. “We will have 55,712 tablets dispatched to their schools by Friday,” Education Minister Suchart Tadathamrongvej said yesterday. Read more: The Nation
BANGKOK, July 17 – Twenty-nine schools run by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) were closed Tuesday due to the spread of the hand, foot and mouth disease, according to a senior BMA Department of Health official. Communicable Disease Control Division director Wongwat Liulak said that 18 schools are totally closed while 11 schools suspended some […]
A drug-resistant strain of Salmonella bacteria, that was found in eggs causing 500 schoolchildren to fall ill, might continue lingering and re-infect them for another three months. The provincial health office will send a team to tackle the situation and set food-safety measures at all schools in Chiang Mai, especially those that take boarders. The […]
BANGKOK, July 11 – Sixty-seven volunteer students from leading universities in the United Kingdom will teach English to Thai students nationwide later this month, as Thailand’s Ministry of Education has targeted that 80 per cent of the students will be to successfully communicate in English. Permanent Secretary for Education Sasithara Pichaichannarong together with British Ambassador […]
Chiang Mai – Nearly 100 school students suffered from foods poisoning after eating boiled eggs donated from a parent Sunday evening. Seventy-five of them were rushed to two hospitals late Sunday nigh and twenty of them were treated at schools. Read more: The Nation
Some 148 students from Khammuang Industrial And Community Education College in Kalasin were forced to undergo a blood test because of fears of possible communicable diseases after it was found that fake doctors used one needle for blood tests on many people, an informed source reported yesterday. The students and their families have called for […]
