Time is running out. It is only three years until Thailand becomes part of the single market system under the Asean Economic Community (AEC). Yet, the majority of people are still not prepared to face the new challenge.
According to a recent poll in the Northeast by Khon Kaen University, more than half the respondents have not heard of the AEC, and the situation is similar in other parts of the country. This is a bad sign.
According to poll respondents, they want to know more about what the impacts of the AEC on their lives will be. They also want the government to provide them with better language and technological skills so they can make use of new opportunities. In short, people know what they want. Yet, the country’s political instability over the past decade and the governments’ preoccupation with day-to-day politics have failed to prepare the populace for what is to come.
But even without divisive politics, ordinary folk still don’t have much chance of seeing equitable benefits from the AEC, due to the inequitable education system and the Education Ministry’s fierce resistance to reform.
Much has been said about the consistently poor teaching of English. But poor English is only a small part of the problem created by the authoritarian and ultra-nationalist Education Ministry.
Time is running out. It is only three years until Thailand becomes part of the single market system under the Asean Economic Community (AEC). Yet, the majority of people are still not prepared to face the new challenge.According to a recent poll in the Northeast by Khon Kaen University, more than half the respondents have not heard of the AEC, and the situation is similar in other parts of the country. This is a bad sign.According to poll respondents, they want to know more about what the impacts of the AEC on their lives will be. They also want the government to provide them with better language and technological skills so they can make use of new opportunities. In short, people know what they want. Yet, the country’s political instability over the past decade and the governments’ preoccupation with day-to-day politics have failed to prepare the populace for what is to come.But even without divisive politics, ordinary folk still don’t have much chance of seeing equitable benefits from the AEC, due to the inequitable education system and the Education Ministry’s fierce resistance to reform.Much has been said about the consistently poor teaching of English. But poor English is only a small part of the problem created by the authoritarian and ultra-nationalist Education Ministry.
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