Education and training
Development and assistance for education
Southern education center helping local teachers to become 'digital savvy'
Thailand’s coordination and administrative center for southern education is providing digital training to more than 3,000 educators in southern cities. On Saturday (Sep 22) , the center organized a training course for the second batch of 120 educators. The course was mainly focused on “Google ...
Thammarat Thadaphrom
Rising investor interest in private education sector in Asia-Pacific
The private education market in Asia-Pacific is a rising investment segment, driven by the region’s demand for high-quality international schools with a focus on English curriculums, says a report by property consultancy JLL.Keep reading ...
Digital tools for education reform
The Independent Committee for Education Reform (ICER) has decided to add “digital tools” to its blueprint on overhauling Thailand’s education sector.Dr Jiruth Sriratanaban, who chairs ICER’s ad-hoc subcommittee on planning education reform, said yesterday that the digital tools were added to the plan after people ...
The Nation Reporter
Making education higher: The Webster way
With the spotlight on the modernisation of the nation’s economy and the drive to achieve Thailand 4.0, doubts over the country’s ability to achieve such lofty goals have called into question the capacity of the current educational system to support the development of its ambitions. ...
30 cents: Keeping poor Thai children in school for Bt10
Thirty cents. There’s not much you can buy for $0.30 these days, but in Thailand the meagre amount multiplied by many willing people is allowing 230 children from desperately poor households to attend school.Initiated last year in the northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai, the ...
John Le Fevre
Schooling for poor kids thanks to Bt10 from Chiang Mai residents
The Equitable Education Fund (EEF) is now exploring ideas on how best to engage all sectors in extending educational help to underprivileged children.At its public forum in Chiang Mai yesterday (August 15), local leader Phairat Maichompoo presented the Bt10 Chiang Mai Fund as a model. ...
Chularat Saengpassa
Thailand Research Expo showcasing 636 successful studies
The Thailand Research Expo 2018 is being held at Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld until Monday (August 13), showcasing more than 600 useful studies. The organizer of this year’s Research Expo, the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), has been able to ...
Thammarat Thadaphrom
Bt30 million in grants offered to academics for collaboration
Thai academics are being invited to apply for new research grants in order to collaborate with their British counterparts and spearhead social change with innovations and technologies.Keep reading ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
Education Reform meeting agrees to boost academic standing of teachers
A panel from Thailand’s Office of the Education Council (ONEC) has held a meeting to discuss the academic standing of local teachers. Chaiyuth Punyasavatsut, a member of ONEC’s independent commission for education reform, revealed that about three quarters of the government’s education budget is dedicated to ...
Nuppol Suvansombut