Govt to set up satellite long-distance for over 15,000 small schools: Prayut
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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said Friday night that his government would use satellite long-distance education to solve inadequate teachers for 15,369 schools nationwide.
He said the government would set up satellite dishes and receives and provide TV sets so that students in those small schools could be taught remotely by teachers from Wang Klai Kangwon School in Hua Hin.
Prayut said the Office of the Basic Education Commission had tried the method schools in primary education area 1 in Suphanburi as a pilot project and the project became successful as students in the area have improved their skills and their NT and O-Net test scores have doubled, and now exceed the national average.
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