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Life is tough for children of migrants
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/01/2012
» Although Chaiyong Hongsa is already 11, he is perfectly happy to be in kindergarten with the toddlers. For him, it is not only where he can learn Thai. It is also where he can have the chance to experience childhood.
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Hopeless lives of sea gypsies
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 29/03/2012
» Teng Pramongkit's dream is to see his children grow up as equal to other Thais. But without citizenship, the door of equal opportunities is shut for his kids and thousands of other Moken, or sea gypsies.
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Change will only come from the bottom up
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/04/2012
» Constant threats of violence from the divisive, colour-coded politics. Endless bloodshed in the restive South. Fierce resistance against decentralisation from officialdom. Politicians of all shades paying lip service to political reform. An authoritarian education system. Explosive popular resentment against disparity and social injustice.
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Parents can't shield good kids from all the bad
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/07/2012
» How did you feel when you read in the paper yesterday about the death of a university student who cut short her life because she was unhappy with how her cosmetic surgery turned out?
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Insane uni entrance
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/07/2012
» GAT. PAT. GPAX. Onet. SAT. CU-ATT. TU-GET. These acronyms used to be meaningless gibberish to me. Now they are making my life hell.
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Dropouts from a failed school system
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/09/2012
» Meet Bank, a school dropout. When he became bored with herding cattle in his village in Ubon Ratchathani, he agreed to toil in a small garage of my car mechanic to learn the ropes. He was 16 then. After only three years, the teenager is now earning 15,000 baht a month, which is equivalent to the salaries of new university graduates, and dreams of setting up his own business in his hometown.
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Rural kids falling through the cracks
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 31/10/2012
» When I asked Nukid, my housekeeper, if she thinks it's better for her small sons to grow up in her village rather than in a big city like Bangkok, she vehemently shook her head.
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Lights out for Ladies of the Lamp
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/11/2012
» When I asked my high-school age daughter who is busy preparing for a university admission exam if she wanted to go to nursing school, her answer pretty much summed up why our country is suffering a drastic shortage of nurses.
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Closing small schools is a huge mistake
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/05/2013
» One of the main reasons cited by Education Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana to back up his policy to close small schools is because they offer poor-quality teaching.
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We educate unfairly, and favour the few
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/09/2013
» The central university admission exam will not take place until June next year. But for some 120,000 Mathayom 6 students, the race toward the finish line has already begun.
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