According to a report on the apect of Thai education in 2004-2005
regarding the government’s continuing efforts to undertake educational reform for the
past 6 years ever since the proclamation of 1999 National Education Act, it was found
that school-aged population (including the disadvantaged and the disabled) had more
opportunity in 12 years of education at a higher figure. However, the measures taken
in terms of 9 years of compulsory education still encountered some problems and
obstacles that made a number of people having no opportunity to undergo for
compulsory education in the formal school system. These problems are, for example,
migration of people from place to place especially those having to follow the parents
who often move for construction works or others, thereby caused them miss the
formal schooling