Govt backs down over jobs for unlicensed teachers
Education Minister Dr Teerakiat Jareonsettasin has bowed to pressure from the teaching profession over the plan to let people without licences apply for teaching jobs in any field.
“We have listened to the voice of teacher-producing institutes,” Teerakiat said on Tuesday. “Given that they think the original plan for the new rule might not be fair to their students who are in five-year undergraduate programmes, we have agreed to adjust it.”
The plan had faced intense pressure from teachers and institutes.
The rule will take effect on Wednesday, but with limitations.
Designed to woo graduates from various fields to the teaching profession, the rule now offers teaching jobs in just 25 of the 61 academic fields.
Interested candidates can apply for assistant-teacher posts from today until April 10.
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