Basic education levels worrisome, assessment finds
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The Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment (ONESQA) said it had certified only 5,690 of the 7,985 basic educational institutes it assessed.
An academic achievement assessment conducted using ONET (Ordinary National Educational Test) scores, meanwhile, found that only 18 out of the 100 assessed schools passed.
Announcing its 2011 report of the Third Round of Quality Assurance (2011-2015), ONESQA director Channarong Pornrungroj said basic education standards were still worrisome, while vocational institutes and universities were at a “satisfactory” level.
ONESQA also found that 1,896 schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) needed improvements, 73 of them in need of emergency improvements, he said.
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