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Time to start measuring what matters
Oped, Maxwell Gomera, Published on 07/05/2021
» As many as 150 million people globally, roughly the combined population of Canada, France and the United Kingdom, may have fallen into pandemic-induced extreme poverty over the past year. Partly as a result, governments are currently pumping unprecedented amounts of money into their Covid-19 response, spending over US$14.6 trillion (456 trillion baht) on rescue and stimulus measures in 2020 alone.
Reforms needed to fix Thai schools
News, Daniel Maxwell, Published on 09/02/2019
» Despite all the lofty goals and tremendous effort made to improve the state of Thai education recently, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's military government has failed to bring about essential reforms.
English literacy just the tip of the iceberg
News, Daniel Maxwell and Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, Published on 21/04/2018
» An ambitious initiative being planned by the Thai Ministry of Education to place thousands of young foreign teachers in rural schools across Thailand has the potential to dramatically improve English-language abilities. However, quality control is likely to prove problematic, as is culture shock. In addition, students in rural communities face myriad educational challenges far beyond foreign language proficiency, which restrict equality of opportunity.