Administrators seek pay pledge

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Almost 100 school administrators yesterday converged on the education ministry to find out whether their monthly salary will rise to 15000 baht as promised by the pheu thai led government

Published: 22 Dec 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

They handed in their letter to Deputy Education Minister Sermsak Pongpanit who later promised that he would try to solve all the problems by next week.

The Pheu Thai Party pledged in its election campaign last year to pay a starting salary of 15,000 baht to university graduates if it came to power.

However, the campaign caused confusion among school administrators when the Comptroller-General's Department in June told the public that the 15,000-baht salary would not apply to school administrators who had been hired as temporary employees.

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paullane
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Discussion 2 : 05 Feb 2013 at 16.382
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Where do you find only senior teachers earning 15,000. I have worked in many Thai schools and almost all Thai teachers get more than that. Indeed senior teachers, heads of department etc get a LOT more. If yiou are talking about tin pot teachers with no degrees and no teaching skills then i am sorry but they dont deserve it anyway.
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This highlights another problem with the 'devil is in the details' challenge of upping graduates minimum wages to 15,000 baht with one sweeping campaign promise. Most teachers (who all should have a degree) are on less than that, only senior teachers get 15k, so overnight you are going to add 50% to your teachers payroll. Good idea if it keeps them in the industry, and results in better education, bad idea if you can't afford it. A graduated increase matched by new skills training and an insistence that old rote methods now be dispensed of, would be more effective.
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