The Thai Education Ministry aims to upgrade the nation’s education
quality ahead of the arrival of the ASEAN Economic Community by
improving instructors’ language skills and promoting understanding about
ASEAN.
The announcement was made by Education Minister
Jaturon Chaisang who has set an ambitious goal of establishing
Thailand as an education hub in ASEAN. The minister was chairing an
annual meeting of the Siam Local News Association at Ebina House Hotel
in Bangkok.
In his speech on the kingdom’s readiness for the
AEC in terms of education, Minister Jaturon said that the move
crucially needs to promote understanding about ASEAN among the personnel
in the education sector.
He also stressed the importance
of learning and understanding languages used by ASEAN nations, saying
that it is a means to learning other knowledge about the countries.
Jaturon said that the Government is ready to promote such learning
schemes for the public, seeing that they will become one of the nation’s
important driving forces.
In parallel with raising the public
awareness of ASEAN understanding, Jaturon promised that the Education
Ministry will develop competent personnel. He also expressed his
optimism that with all the proposed campaigns being implemented,
Thailand will become ASEAN’s education hub.
He said that
the government will push for obtaining the global education standard,
generating skilled labour based on the global demands and aiding the
expansion of the domestic and international industrial sector.-VNA