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  1. 1. learning | 18 Jan 2011

    Tutorial schools are thriving

    General news

    By Terry Fredrickson

    » As long as students and parents believe government schools are not doing a good enough job, tutorial schools will be there to take their money. (Includes video)

  2. 2. learning | 15 Dec 2010

    Viability of small schools in Thailand

    About education

    By Jon Fernquest

    » Rural Thais have been moving their children to larger schools with higher educational standards which are also less expensive to run for the last 20 years. Is it time to merge some rural schools in remote areas?

  3. 3. learning | 08 Jun 2011

    Bribes for seats in prestigious Bangkok schools

    About education

    By Jon Fernquest

    » Bribes for admission to prestigious schools doubled, hidden by untransparent "substituted seat" system. Only 40% of schools following no bribe policy.

  4. 4. news | 12 May 2013

    Thais object to closing small schools

    By Online Reporters

    » A majority of Thais object to the Education Ministry's plan to close small schools and merge them into larger schools of reputedly higher quality, according to the result of Suan Dusit Poll published on Sunday.

  5. 5. learning | 15 Sep 2011

    Poor kids in best schools?

    About education

    By Jon Fernquest

    » Big payments to get into top schools may be illegal, but a system to get around the rules has been created.

  6. 6. news | 14 May 2013

    Small schools unite to survive

    » AYUTTHAYA - Given a choice to unite or die, three small schools in tambon Thai Noi of Bang Ban district have launched a programme to join classes, improve education quality and survive the education ministry's projec...

  7. 7. learning | 22 Apr 2010

    Outlying schools in line for facelift

    EDUCATION

    By Sirikul Bunnag, Newspaper section: News

    » The Education Ministry will kick off its "one tambon, one outstanding school" project this year with almost 2 billion baht for spending on upgrading schools in remote areas.

  8. 8. news | 08 May 2013

    Thousands of schools 'should go'

    » The Education Ministry is proposing to close almost 6,000 small schools nationwide to save money on upkeep and provide more efficiency in teaching, minister Phongthep Thepkanchana said Tuesday.

  9. 9. learning | 28 Nov 2012

    155th teacher dies in South

    About education

    By Jon Fernquest

    » Teachers told to sleep at schools for their own safety. Teachers close 332 schools in Pattani to pressure for new protective measures.

  10. 10. opinion | 10 May 2013

    Don't penalise small schools

    EDITORIAL

    Newspaper section: News

    » During its tenure, the Abhisit government pushed for a policy to close small schools in rural areas which stood to affect hundreds of thousands of pupils nationwide.

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