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 Equitable Education Fund that public spending on education is inadequate though the education budget for the 2021 fiscal year was worth 76 billion baht.
Bangkok Post Reporter
