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  • OPINION

    Yok case shows need for a rethink

    News, Editorial, Published on 25/06/2023

    » A recent controversy involving a prestigious high school refusing to enrol 15-year-old political activist Thanalop "Yok" Phalanchai reflects a lack of protection for rule-defying students.

  • OPINION

    Stateless students need legal status

    News, Editorial, Published on 10/07/2022

    » Thailand is rapidly ageing. Every child in the country -- regardless of nationality -- needs access to care and education to help meet the country's economic challenges ahead. It is a huge mistake for officialdom to deny stateless children an education and care just because they are non-Thais. This bigotry must end.

  • OPINION

    Fewer tests, more change

    News, Editorial, Published on 28/12/2020

    » Education Minister Nathapol Teepsuwan's recent decision to call off the Ordinary National Education Test (O-Net) for Prathom 6 (Grade 6) and Mathayom 3 (Grade 9) in the 2020 academic year was noteworthy. However, more needs to be done if the minister truly wants to improve the education system.

  • OPINION

    Religion not the answer

    News, Editorial, Published on 15/02/2020

    » Members of the House committee on religion, art and culture seem to believe that adding an extra 80 hours a year to compulsory religion and "morality" teaching in public schools is a practical way to reduce violence in society.

  • OPINION

    Prayut must prove mettle

    News, Editorial, Published on 13/05/2019

    » As post-election political bargaining intensifies, with different camps fiercely competing for a chance to form a coalition, the idea of "political reform" has become blurred, if not forgotten.

  • OPINION

    Ghost pupils haunt system

    News, Editorial, Published on 27/11/2018

    » The Ministry of Education has had many corruption cases revealed this year. Some have been of the most venal kind, including theft of funds for student meals, with pupils served starvation lunches. Officials now are trying to dismiss another significant corruption outrage as some sort of minor bookkeeping error. They must not get away with it.

  • OPINION

    Arrest sexism in police force

    News, Editorial, Published on 06/09/2018

    » As Thailand under the military-sponsored constitution will become a more democratically regressive state after the general election next year than it was prior to the 2014 coup, the Royal Thai Police (RTP) this week came up with -- or were forced to come up with -- what can only be described as a backwards policy.

  • OPINION

    Slavery fight gets a boost

    News, Editorial, Published on 16/01/2018

    » Human trafficking is arguably the worst of the world's scourges. Around the globe and here at home, men, women and children are bought, sold, traded and exploited for the profit and/or pleasure of others.

  • OPINION

    Our teachers' heavy burden

    News, Editorial, Published on 11/02/2016

    » It is a well-known fact that a large number of teachers in this country are heavily loaded with debts, both formal and informal. The chronic debt problem is so bad that some fear the quality of education in Thailand may be affected because teachers themselves appear to be more concentrated on finding the money to pay their debts than on teaching. 

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