Dapong said there are 15,537 school with fewer than 120 students , according to the office of Basic Education Commission. these small school with be merged with selected main school , which will results in better management and better teaching , he said Implementation of the plan had begun this year with 827 school , each with fewer than 20 students, to be merged with 300 main schools located near to them. Teachers and students at the small schools were beng transferred to the bigger school. The Education Ministry had a target to complete the mergers within five years, he said.
However,not all small schools would be shut down, he said. Some were located in remote communities with no large school nearby. Udon Thani governor Chayawut Chantarathorn said the province attaches more importance to the development of human resources than building of infrastructure. This was one of the nine development strategies of the province, he said