"The Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) is to invest Bt500 million in including an international curriculum in its secondary schools as part of the Education Ministry's policy to promote Thailand as the region's education hub, according to Somkiat Chobphol, deputy secretarygeneral of the Obec.
The ministry has provided totally Bt3 billion budget to run the education hub project in secondary, vocational and higher education, and set a goal to have at least 100,000 foreign students in international education systems in Thailand by 2014.
"We hope to encourage foreign parents working in Thailand and neighbouring countries to let their children study in 14 pilot schools with international curriculum of Obec as well as Thai parents," said Somkiat.
He said there were many foreigners working in Thailand and neighbouring countries currently, such as Japaneses and Americans, which would be an important target group. Another target group is highincome local people in the neighbouring countries, for instance in Laos.
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Posted 06 July 2009 - 06:26 PM
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The Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) is to invest Bt500 million in including an international curriculum in its secondary schools as part of the Education Ministry's policy to promote Thailand as the region's education hub...
Let's hope it works better than the IT hub, which is still waiting for the first signs of 3G.
Hehehe....
