EDUCATION
Plan to make English 2nd language vetoed
- Published: 20/10/2010 at 09:56 AM
- Newspaper section: News
The Education Ministry has scrapped a plan to make English the country's second language, saying it could lead to misunderstandings that Thailand had been colonised in the past.
The ministry will make English the main foreign language instead of the second official language, Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat said yesterday.
A subcommittee on education standards development under the committee on education reform proposed in July that English be made the country's second official language. The panel hoped this would spur students to achieve proficiency in English and help place the nation on the road map to the Asean Community in 2015.
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- Writer: Sirikul Bunnag
- Position: Reporter
