Article 44 improved education, minister says

Speaking at an event called “A Leap Forward in Bridging Higher Education, Research and Innovation for Thailand 4.0”, Dr Teerakiat explained that the move overcame legal barriers that slow progress in education and thus hamper the economy.
“We needed to use Article 44 to open a new chapter in Thai education,” he said. “It enabled us to waive all rules slowing progress.”
Since Thailand is governed according to civil law rather than common law, he said, government actions must have the appropriate legal standing, but at times legal barriers stand in the way of the best intentions.
“When I first came to the post of education minister, I had many new ideas, but officials at the ministry said I couldn’t act on them because there were laws preventing me,” Teerakiat said. “They told me that, instead, I’d have to do what the law told me to do.
“Why can’t I do what I want to do to help our education system progress?”
The world is becoming more complex and interconnected, he said, and children must be prepared for the challenges. The government wanted foreign universities to help develop the country’s human resources, he said.
At the same event, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang announced a collaboration with United States-based Carnegie Mellon University to set up a research centre in Thailand in accordance with government policy.