OPINION

Thailand's education system is in troubled times

Oped, Published on 04/11/2020

» Over the past few months, Thailand has seen its latest wave of student protests rise across the country. The students -- most of whom are high-school and undergraduate students -- organised themselves under different banners and made demands that ranged from ending harassment and intimidation against critics of the government, scrapping outdated school rules and reforming the whole education system, to holding new elections, amending the constitution, and reforming the monarchy itself (this demand is widely seen as the most radical and unheard of in recent Thai history).