Education and training

State agencies must give importance to amending laws and regulations, including those to accommodate a sharing economy, to help businesses and people cash in on the “Thailand 4.0” era, Bank of Thailand Governor Veerathai Santipra-bhob said yesterday. At a PostToday seminar, he said Thailand today was ...

Cambodia’s seven largest urban centres are home to nearly 2,700 homeless adolescents who face numerous health and education-related obstacles, according to a new study by the Cambodian National Institute of Statistics, Columbia University and Friends International. The study is the first in Cambodia to use ...

The well-off are often willing to spend tens of millions of dong for every child, equal to six months of income of many poor people. Thu Mai in Hanoi and her family members are leading good lives thanks to the prosperous business in many fields, from ...

In order to increase revenue, universities are expanding their training scale, receiving as many students as possible and lowering requirements on students. Hoang Ngoc Vinh, in an article on Nguoi Lao Dong, commented that schools have lowered requirements on admission, are easier in student assessment and ...

The Ministry of Education and Sports and Save the Children are jointly implementing the Basic Education Quality and Access Project in Nambak district, Luang Prabang province. The two year project worth more than 4 billion kip (US$493,812) is being funded by the Australian government and EU ...

The National League for Democracy-led government’s first crack at formulating an annual Union budget has proposed only a modest increase in defence spending, with the lion’s share earmarked for the Ministry of Planning and Finance. Submitted to parliament yesterday, the K20.896 trillion budget for the ...

The Education Ministry wants to upgrade its Office of Higher Education Commission into a ministry to lift university standards. The goal is to turn Thai universities into research and innovation drivers, and highly skilled and qualified workforce providers, in line with the 20-year national strategy and ...

Vietnam ranks 19th among 20 countries which have students gaining the best achievements in the latest OECD rankings. The Independent, in its article titled ‘The best countries in the world to get an education’ published on December 8, 2016, named 20 of the best performing countries ...

At least 600 of more than 4,500 schools seeking to be included on a school standard enhancement programme provide poor education quality, according to the Office of the Basic Education Commission, which is introducing the scheme. A total of 679 schools do not meet the ...

A trainer was killed and 26 secondary school students suffered minor injuries in an explosion accident on January 24 morning during a military-tactics training drill at a secondary school in northern Oudomxay province, a police officer said. The tragedy happened as the trainer, Military First ...