Social development
Education and training
Ministry gives relief to parents through discounted school supplies
The Commerce Ministry is offering discounts of up to 80 per cent on more than 1,605 school supplies until July 15 as relief to the parents of some 10.7 million students.Democrat Party spokesman Ramet Rattanachaweng said on Saturday (June 27) that Democrat Party leader and ...
The Nation Reporter
BMA offers online vocational courses [Video]
A vocational school, operating under the supervision of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, has found success putting training courses online. After establishing this newfound approach to teaching, they have decided to go full throttle.Keep watching ...
Education in classrooms, not online, comes first: Minister
Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan has pledged to prioritise learning in the classroom even as he moves to add online lessons.Speaking about the reopening of schools in July, Mr Nataphol said all students can return to schools under strict health guidelines but both online and on-air ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Student Fund targets Bt34 billion in new loans
The Student Loan Fund is targeting fresh loans of Bt34 billion to both new and previous students, although debt payments this year have tended to decrease from the expected Bt32 billion to around Bt20 billion, manager Chainarong Katchapanan said.More than Bt10 million has so far ...
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Thais question government’s online learning experiment
On 18 May, the Ministry of Education launched a large-scale online learning experiment to be put into full use in the upcoming semester, but Thais have questioned the quality of an English course and problems of equal access, as 10% of students nationwide still rely ...
Education Ministry hiring 10,000 asst teachers during virus crisis
The Education Ministry will hire 10,000 assistant teachers for primary schools as a way of helping unemployed educators amid the Covid-19 crisis.Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan said the plan was to hire assistant teachers for six months on a monthly salary of Bt9,000. The budget for ...
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Rocky start as distance education gets going
The rollout of state distance learning television (DLTV) and online classrooms got off to a bumpy start as children on Monday could not tune in to the broadcast, had no internet connection or were even led to online advertisements instead of school programmes.The problems not ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Post-Covid teachers wanted
The Education Ministry will offer jobs to 10,000 assistant teachers to man smaller classrooms post-Covid-19 lockdown as classes are to be split.Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan said class sizes will be reduced for social distancing purposes. The pre-pandemic ratio was 20 students per teacher.Keep reading ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Concern grow over poor kids ‘locked out’ of online school
Many Thai children have found themselves unable to begin their new school term, as they have no smartphone or internet to access the online classes.The problem has become a hot topic among netizens after cases emerged in Nakhon Ratchasima province of children prevented from joining ...
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Students, parents highlight problems on first day of govt’s online learning
Netizens, both students and parents, complained of being hit by a variety of problems on the first day of online and satellite distance learning today (May 18).Today is the first day the Education Ministry organised online learning for students nationwide via six channels – digital ...
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