Education Minister Jurin Laksanavisit said that his ministry “decided to step in because we have found accumulated problems with the project over the past 13 years. More than 20,000 satellite dishes have been bought with a budget of billions of baht, but the schools rarely make use of them…”. The minister described the dishes as being “another school antique.”
In addition, it was found that there was poor targeting and inadequate training. Indeed, “some schools equipped with the satellite dishes were found to have adequate teaching staff and therefore did not need the long-distance learning service…”, and there was a “lack of preparation of teachers and staff to be able to maximise the use of the satellite dishes…” in their teaching.