Authorities still refuse to issue teaching licences in Khon Kaen
The Teachers Council of Thailand has stood by a decision to not automatically issue teaching licences to graduates from an uncertified centre at a northeastern university.
Graduates from institutes awarding teaching certificates generally receive licences upon graduation.
However, 125 graduates from Loei Rajabhat University’s Faculty of Education at its Khon Kaen campus have been denied licences because the Khon Kaen centre has not been certified, although the faculty has.
“We cannot grant them teaching licences because the place of their studies has not passed the Office of Higher Education Commission’s assessment,” the council secretary-general Dr Somsak Donprasit said on Tuesday.
He said his council had allowed affected graduates to transfer credits for the issuance of a one-year teaching permit.
“The permit is valid for one year. Then, they must sit an exam for a teaching licence that will be valid for five years,” Somsak said.
On Monday, a graduate from the Khon Kaen campus lodged a complaint with a government complaints centre in Khon Kaen petition for help.