Approximately 64,000 Prathom Suksa 3 and 32,000 Prathom Suksa 6 students in Thailand are illiterate, eight percent and four percent of the overall students in their range, respectively, according to results from a national test.
Chinnapat Bhumirat, Secretary General of the Office of the Basic Education Commission of Thailand, said “Students of peripheral and ethnic backgrounds who suffer difficulty in communicating in Thai are also the main group that we must follow closely. So far, we are planning to use innovations to help those children undergoing problems of understanding Thai language through bilingual lessons”
A commission will tackle the issue with innovations to help encourage the illiterate children. The method, which complies with the policy of the Education Ministry, is expected to be adopted in November 2013 – February 2014 and will be evaluated on a monthly basis, reported Khaosod.
