Group petitions NLA against bill on Thammasat University
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A group from Thammasat University yesterday submitted a petition with 2,702 signatures to the National Legislative Assembly seeking postponement of a legal amendment conferring self-autonomy on the institution.
NLA president Pornphetch Wichitcholchai said the call came too late because the bill had already been vetted and was pending its second and third readings, but he would ask the committee supervising this case to be informed about this petition’s details.
The group, led by Sathaporn Senawong, secretary-general of the university’s student council, wants information about the bill to be thoroughly understood by those affected first.
Lecturers, students and staff should be able to participate in considering the issues and making recommendations to the NLA, they said.
The amendments of Article 30 should allow at least two student representatives to sit on the University Council and Article 23 should allow expert committee members to serve up to two consecutive terms of three years each, they said.
