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Students face tougher loans criteria
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 05/09/2014
» The Student Loans Fund (SLF) will tighten lending eligibility criteria to address liquidity problems caused by those who fail to repay the cash they owe.
Loan fund struggling to pay students
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 05/03/2014
» The Student Loan Fund (SLF) is struggling to extend new loans to students who need the money to continue their studies because of a delay in the government's approval of a 2.1-billion-baht budget request.
Ministry plans English teaching overhaul
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 08/12/2013
» The Education Ministry is pushing reforms it says will enhance English language proficiency among students and teachers.
Chaturon eyes 75,000 more vocational students
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 24/10/2013
» The Education Ministry wants to increase the number of vocational students by 75,600 next year to serve industrial demands and economic growth.
OEC rules out change to subsidies
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 15/08/2013
» The Office of the Education Council (OEC) has decided to maintain the current method of subsidies for schools, but is offering extra funds to underprivileged schools.
Chaturon eyes subsidy study
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 10/08/2013
» Education Minister Chaturon Chaisaeng has asked the Office of the Education Council (OEC) to conduct a study to improve distribution of educational subsidies for students.
Schools told to cut Grade 7 enrolments
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 14/03/2013
» Prestigious and highly competitive schools nationwide have been asked to reduce seats at the Mathayom 1 (Grade 7) level.
Obec readies for next round of tablet buying
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 11/02/2013
» The Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec) will organise an electronic auction to procure about 1.8 million tablet computers next month, pending cabinet approval.
Auction raises legal worries
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 02/01/2013
» The legality of a second tablet auction under the Pheu Thai-led government's One Tablet PC Per Child policy will have to be confirmed by the Comptroller-General's Department (CGD), a tablet committee source says.
Educators want urgent reform
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 29/11/2012
» Leading educators have urged the government to take concrete action to reform Thailand's education system after the country was ranked near the bottom in a recent global report.