Extend book promo to all provinces

This sets a positive example for motivated students, teachers, parents and communities for cooperative endeavours promoting Bangkok’s role as World Book Capital. It is hoped that the anticipated collaborative efforts with more than 20 leading public and private organisations, will expand to more than 100 related campuses, companies and corporations, recommending learner-focused electronic materials through social networks like Facebook.

Especially targeting academic drop-outs, a general literacy campaign should aggressively provide self-help opportunities to motivated taxi drivers, waiters, clerks – whatever – to raise their academic skills to at least Mathayom 6 equivalency, imitating the Sukhothai University independent-study model. 

I also enthusiastically encourage young and old adults alike to participate in the Bangkok authority’s excellent career-expansion initiatives offered free of charge in such marketable professions as therapeutic massage, Thai-food preparation, fruit and vegetable carving, barbering and hairstyling. I especially like the fact that these accredited courses emphasise practical application rather than strictly theoretical approaches.

Charles Frederickson                              

Bangkok