Deputy prime minister responds to worries on education proposal
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Khun Burin Kantabutra, in his letter to the editor on December 14, agreed with me that our schools badly need to improve their quality.
However, he worries that my proposal to have schools randomly checked by the Office of the National Education Standards and Quality Assessment under my policy supervision would be akin to having dying patients in a hospital ICU randomly checked for their vital signs.
I would like to explain my position as follows. First, not all schools are in an emergency situation and need to be checked with the same frequency and intensity as others.
Second, I propose to have a voluntary accreditation process as a major new aspect of the work of the office. This would open the way for a system with approved trainers and certifiers to help with the checking process, which is now overwhelmingly done by the office.
This would give opportunities to schools and educational institutions to improve their quality with training processes up to now missing in the system.
Yongyuth Yuthavong,
Deputy Prime Minister
