Minister confirms plan to close all small schools
Nearly all schools with fewer than 120 students will be merged into larger schools within five years, Education Minister Dapong Ratanasuwan confirmed on Thursday. The exemptions will be a few schools in remote areas. The education minister was speaking during an inspection of Chumchon Samphrao School in Muang district of Udon Thani province, one of the schools included in the planned mergers.