On July 27th, 2011, Ms. Churairat Sangboonnum, the Deputy Permanent Secretary for
Education, presided over a signing ceremony of cooperation under the project of
quality learning and teaching of the Chinese language in educational institutes located in
Bangkok Metropolitan and networking schools, Thai - Chinese networking schools
and, the Center for Chinese Language Development (Hanban), Beijing Normal
University. This event took place at Ratchavallop Meeting Room in the Ministry of
Education.
The Deputy Permanent Secretary informed all in attendance that the government had
delivered a policy on moving forward to the ASEAN Community in 2015 through
human resource development in order to provide access to quality education and
lifelong learning as well as to develop innovation, research and development and
ASEAN integration for all Thai citizens.
The provision of basic education is a crucial educational system in borderless
communication. It must achieve educational standards in response to the free trade
areas both in ASEAN and in the WTO. In this regard, educational cooperation
amongst neighboring countries is important, especially as China is developing
educational standards which will stimulate internationalization and international
standard schools. This will also facilitate collaboration in developing teachers,
students and educational administrators and an information exchange. Thus, it was a
great opportunity for Thai educational administrators and distinguished delegates from
the Chinese government to strengthen their close cooperation in quality Chinese
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learning and teaching under the support of the Center for Chinese Language
Development (Hanban), the Beijing Normal University that reflects the valued
friendship which exists between both countries.