The government has now revealed a practical side to the Pheu Thai Party’s election policy to hand out free computer tablets to students. Next year, these devices will come equipped with e-textbooks. Yet, criticism has not died down. According to Education Minister Woravat Auapinyakul, each tablet will cost no more than Bt3,000 and its use-life […]
BANGKOK, 9 August 2011 (NNT) – The Office of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting an investigation after milk provided to students at one primary school in Nakhon Pathom province is suspected to have cause them to develop severe diarrhea. The news has prompted public health offices around Thailand to double check the quality […]
BANGKOK, 3 August 2011 (NNT) – The Royal Institute is producing a dictionary of local literature in order to help conserve Thai dialects while it is encouraging children not to be shy when they speak their own dialects. Thailand Royal Institute Secretary-General Kanokwalee Chuchaiya stated that the institute is aware of the declining use of […]
BANGKOK, 29 July 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Education is urging schools nationwide to promote Chinese language study as it has been regarded an important tool to support educational development to the international level. Deputy Permanent Secretary for Education Churairat Sangboonnum on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Beijing Normal University on […]
Thai Politicians are ignoring long-term solution to Northeast’s poverty trap Waves of both good and bad news have swept through the Thai education world this month alone. These realities reflect not only the inequitable structure of our national education policy but also the lack of attention authorities have paid to the field. First the bad […]
YALA, July 25 – Seven persons were wounded in an early morning bombing at the entrance of a Yala school on Monday, according to provincial authorities. Five educators were wounded — four teachers, Kanlaya Boonrod, Jintana Boonsanong, Watcharee Puchaphan, and Suwanun Auwannarat, as well as administrator Phirisa Nawapattarawong — all of Ban Limud School. Read […]
A Sripathum University student lost control of the car he was driving while reaching for a cell phone and fatally hit a street sweeper in Bangkok’s Don Muang district Tuesday morning, police say Arriving at the scene on inbound Vibhavadi-Rangsit road at 6.30am, they found fourth-year student Worakorn Limplew and the dead body of city […]
YALA, July 19 – A roadside motorcycle bomb blast on Tuesday wounded 16 people, including military personnel and local residents, in front of a school in the southern border province of Yala, according to the Yala bomb disposal squad and forensic unit. The 16 casualties, including nine military personnel, three students and four residents, have […]
