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Boycott raises awareness of corruption
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 21/11/2013
» Everything that has a beginning, has an end. But when Ratchadamnoen protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban promised that the rally would end this month, I took his words with a grain of salt and actually have no idea how it is going to end.
The absurdity of criminalising whistle blowing
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/11/2013
» Blowing a whistle as a symbol of protest or civil disobedience is not just trendy in the current tense political climate, it has also become a contentious legal issue.
Stop the rot in trade schools
News, Published on 26/10/2013
» Our problem-plagued education system has no shortage of critics. Perhaps the most frustrated among them are human resource managers in successful companies. They waste a lot of their time telling graduates clutching new degrees that the theoretical skills they have spent years acquiring are not easily marketable.
For higher returns, invest in human capital
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 17/10/2013
» The government has clamoured for months about the necessity of its 2-trillion-baht borrowing programme to help modernise our road and rail infrastructure. While many question the approach and methodology of how the programme will be financed, vetted and structured, few doubt that more public investment is sorely needed to support the country's growth over the next several decades.
Thailand is more than Soi Cowboy
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 13/10/2013
» Two-plus years have passed since Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra took office. Probation period is long over. It's time to step up on her leadership.
Systemic ills of the tablets
News, Published on 09/10/2013
» In many ways, the problems with the One Tablet Per Student (OTPS) programme mirror the problems with the education system as a whole. Both OTPS and the school system supposedly exist to benefit our children.
Loosen grip at learning helm
News, Published on 04/10/2013
» After just one year, the Pheu Thai government's "one tablet per child" policy has hit a major hurdle. The first semester of the school year has already finished, but Prathom 1 and Mathayom 1 students across the country still have not received their tablet PCs.
The problems with education
News, Published on 01/10/2013
» Education Minister Chaturon Chaisaeng has attacked the pathetic English-language courses taught in schools nationwide.
For students, first the cram, then the crush
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/09/2013
» Sunday was Car-Free Day, but traffic in the Muang Thong area on Chaeng Watthana Road was bumper to bumper from 5am.
Thai children shortchanged
News, Published on 06/09/2013
» Is it true that the quality of Thai education is the worst among Asean countries? Pavich Thongroj, adviser to the education minister plunged the country into gloom earlier this week when he said Thailand's education ranks last after Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.