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Education Ministry urged to reconsider budget for small schools
The network of small schools nationwide has proposed to the Ministry of Education to revise the budget allocation formula to improve quality and reduce disparities within one fiscal year.Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education has collected information on issues and solutions in collaboration with ActionAid, emphasising ...
The Nation Reporter
Dropouts up as subsidy funding lags
The government’s free education programme needs to be revised to improve access to and the quality of basic education following an increase in dropouts among poor students, a seminar was told.Chaiyuth Punyasavatsut, lecturer at Thammasat University’s faculty of economics, told a forum held by the ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Student Loan Fund to expand lending due to Covid-19 crisis
The Student Loan Fund (SLF) plans to increase its loan budget for academic year 2020 from Bt34 billion to Bt37 billion to help students and parents during the Covid-19 situation, and expects up to 650,000 borrowers.“The SLF has also adjusted the eligibility of borrowers from ...
The Nation 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 ...
The Nation Reporter
Education fund approves Bt2 billion to help poor students
The Equitable Education Fund (EEF) has allocated a Bt2.04- billion budget to relieve the burden of poor students whose parents have been impacted financially by the Covid-19 crisis, EEF president Dr Prasarn Trairat-vorakul revealed.The money will be used as remedial measures, with 750,000 students — ...
The Nation Reporter
Student loans boost as crisis bites
More parents will be allowed to seek loans from the Finance Ministry’s Student Loan Fund (SLF) as it boosts loan finance and eligibility criteria following the impact of Covid-19 on household incomes.Some funding criteria will be adjusted to cover more borrowers and each student will ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Ease terms for student loans: panel
Conditions for state-funded student loans should be made friendlier for borrowers, including allowing them to be self-guarantors, suggested the House panel studying the issue.Phetchompoo Kiturana, committee spokeswoman, said the panel made the proposal after meeting Chainarong Katchapanan, the Student Loan Fund (SLF) manager, on Thursday ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Student Loan Fund reduces default fines by 80%
The Student Loan Fund has reduced its fines by 75-80% for borrowers who have defaulted on their repayments, in a bid to curb student loan defaults, SLF manager Chainarong Katchapanan said.The fund has extended loans to 5.6 million borrowers since its launch in 1998. Of ...
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
Student loan funds to be given to students in 10 targeted industries
The Ministry of Finance and Student Loan Fund are providing loans for students at Bachelor and Vocational levels who graduate in the fields which are most in demand by 10 targeted industries and three major infrastructure developments. Upon graduation, the principal and interest on the ...
Tarin Angskul
Muslim students demand answers over loans
Around 300 Muslim students from the southern border provinces arrived at the Army Area 4 head office in Nakhon Si Thammarat to seek his help over their requests for educational loans.The students said they came from the unstable three southern provinces to study in Nakhon ...
The Nation Reporter