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DSI tipped to fail teachers on tests

Published: 2 Mar 2013 at 08.32
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The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is expected to ask the Education Ministry to nullify recruitment exam results for 2,000 assistant teachers nationwide after finding evidence of cheating.

DSI director-general Tarit Pengdith said the department is investigating the case following a request by Deputy Education Minister Sermsak Pongpanit.

Initial findings justify recommending the examination results be scrapped, he said.

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OldThaiHand
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Discussion 10 : 02 Mar 2013 at 17.3810
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I've known heads of English at 2 major Bangkok universities who had fake degrees. One of them didn't even have a high school diploma.
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pete
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Discussion 9 : 02 Mar 2013 at 12.429
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ploydonut: disc1:
Unfortunately you may be correct. You can have a degree certificate printed almost anywhere in Thailand and even buy one via internet. In most European countries it’s against the law but here anything goes. I’m ashamed to say I know a teacher who has done just that.
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Discussion 8 : 02 Mar 2013 at 11.508
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Thai students are amazing cheats. I still can't understand how four of them, seated in each corner of the room, with me in the room watching, could come up with the identically worded, insanely wrong answer for one of the questions. The head of English at one school I taught at, wouldn't speak to me in English despite a Masters Degree in English.
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Discussion 7 : 02 Mar 2013 at 10.507
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The English language teacher of one of my nieces is from Estonia. I’m English and can’t make head or tail of what she says. I wonder where she was tested. Somewhere the selection system has massive loopholes.
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Discussion 6 : 02 Mar 2013 at 10.496
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It's really quite easy to detect cheating. Many of these tests will have a few absolutely ridiculous questions on them that no one could answer, usually because all the given choices are either correct or wrong. If too many applicants or students get the answer deemed "correct" it shows they must have cheated.
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Discussion 5 : 02 Mar 2013 at 10.305
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Assistant teachers are Thai and they are not Government Officials- as far as I know. They help Thai Teachers in the classrooms and with administrative and paper work. In Thailand, everything is about tests. You can be very qualified and very smart and a very good lecturer, but if you cannot remember all the paragraphs and details of a guideline or fat book full of education laws - YOU FAIL. Directors of schools are not directors because of their qualifications, but because they can remember all the paragraphs during the test.
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Discussion 4 : 02 Mar 2013 at 09.564
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A bit unfair to do in Thailand!
Thai custom and culture condones, and therefore perpetuates such behaviour.
Obviously the conclusion will be a simplistic, surface only response, and next year it will be the same, as per every other avenue of Thai life.
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Discussion 3 : 02 Mar 2013 at 09.393
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OK so get rid of the ones CAUGHT cheating. Then give exams to the ones teaching already and eliminate those unqualified.

Soon there will be only few teachers left to teach.

It is a vicious circle.

English language teachers are among the most incapable. They will teach badly and students in turn will teach the same limited English. They usually resort to grammar as they can simply follow written rules. From experience many students are discourage as a consequence.
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Discussion 2 : 02 Mar 2013 at 09.252
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What about previous years?
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Discussion 1 : 02 Mar 2013 at 09.001
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I also thinking that my English teacher from England also cheat to become the teacher.
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