2,000 schools flunk quality assurance assessments

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2,000 schools flunk quality assurance assessments

Published: 14 Jul 2012 at 00.00
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More than 2,000 schools have failed to pass quality standards set by the Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment (Onesqa), the office's director says.

Channarong: Worried about poor results

"There are 2,295 schools nationwide that failed to pass the assessment," Channarong Pornrungroj said on Thursday during a news conference on the results of the first phase of Onesqa's third round of external quality assessments.

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dao
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Discussion 23 : 14 Jul 2012 at 23.0523
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I,m tired of saying upgrade the teachers and reform education .You get what you give .
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Discussion 22 : 14 Jul 2012 at 21.5522
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Some Things will Never change!!
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Discussion 21 : 14 Jul 2012 at 21.0521
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Until the No Fail policy is outlawed and schools are run as schools and not as a cash cows and kids are taught analytical and thinking skills and encouraged to ask questions and participate. Teachers are trained to teach modern methods of teaching and parents take more care and attention to improve their kids lives instead of caving in at the smallest shriek or moan AND......... I could go on and on and NOTHING will change.
It's the way it is......
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Discussion 20 : 14 Jul 2012 at 20.1720
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Aussie John (D #1) Is quite correct. However! I think he's talking about the education system in the United States. We're Number One! Thailand is merely following in our footsteps - creating a mass of people with no cognitive skills, making them easy prey for the rich/powerful.
As far as persisting in making schools simply and only trade techs to produce workerbees for factories - see paragraph one above.
How about tasking the education system with prepping people to be active citizens? I know, that's a radical thought.
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Discussion 19 : 14 Jul 2012 at 19.3019
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Two weeks ago, I wrote that Thais are generally naive and ignorant. The Red Shirt fans attacked me for that comment. Well, I've travelled to many countries and met many nationalities - I stand by that assessment.
Those characteristics are symptoms.
This report shows the cause.
The cure is a total revamp of the education system AND the Thai mentality to change and education. Sorry to say, that even with a revamp, nothing will change because Thais will resist change and find the easiest way to avoid doing extra work.
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Discussion 18 : 14 Jul 2012 at 19.0818
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See what are the miracles can iPads help. Oversea graduates, please step out and say something about this education system at home.
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Discussion 17 : 14 Jul 2012 at 16.0217
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All these comments seem to have forgotten only last week industry was calming a skills shortage.If we are saying that failing schools schools are the ones in the rural areas why encourage them to follow an academic curriculum instead train them skills to enable them to fill these vacant jobs.I know many educated twit with no common scene incapable of replacing a tap washer.We need these young people not jobs need higher education.Some children just need life skills to survive and find a job.Hopefully paying more than 300 bht a day like many of there parents.I do not think a tablet computer is not going to help them find a job.More capable teaching standards suited to the child's needs will.
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Discussion 16 : 14 Jul 2012 at 14.1416
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As if the 1 billion plus spent on tablets would help the students, why not use that money to update the outdated textbooks and classrooms in order to provide a better education? Its puzzling how the government put a lot of recent things as priority when it does nothing to help solve the root cause of problems.
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Discussion 15 : 14 Jul 2012 at 12.4815
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Quite simply one of the biggest problems I have seen in primary and secondary education is the overcrowding in classrooms. Students are packed in like eggs in a carton. No matter how good the teacher may be, it is difficult to accomplish very much in such a situation. More money needs to be spent on expanding the existing schools and hiring more teachers. Unfortunately, it is already difficult to find enough qualified teachers as it is.
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Discussion 14 : 14 Jul 2012 at 10.3214
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@Discussion 1,

Nail right on the head. Why would the powers that be strive for a well educated populace? An educated person work never work for peanuts in their factories and businesses that these people own. An educated populace would ask all kinds of intelligent questions that would make a lot of powerful people lose face or more.
The entire education system is designed to keep the status-quo.The inspections by the way are a joke. The school where I work at expects the inspectors to come around sometime next week and everyone is in a window dressing frenzy. Everything at the school has to 'look neat' and nothing that has any substance is going to be assessed.
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