Education Minister Chaturon Chaisaeng admitted last week he was "very concerned" over the latest World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report that called Thailand's education standards the worst of the eight members of Asean it assessed.
The minister was only reacting to the well-known fact that the country's much-hyped "school reform" had gone nowhere and it was his responsibility to try to draw up a new "national agenda on education" that would hopefully turn things around - admittedly an uphill task, considering the fact that he isn't sure how long he will remain in his post.