(22-04-2013)
The Minister of the Office of the Prime Minister, Ms. Sansanee Nakphong, the Deputy Minister of Education, Mr. Sermsak Pongpanit, the Assistant to the Education Minister, Dr. Phuangphet Chunlaiad, the Inspector General of Education, Mrs. Ongjit Methayaprapas, the Deputy Secretary General of the Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC), Dr. Benjalak Namfah, the Secretary General of Office of Non Formal and Informal Education, Mr. Prasert Bunreung
and administrators of non formal education centers attended the opening
of new ASEAN Educational Centers, a project for building the foreign
language capabilities of women and the presentation of signboards for
the ASEAN Educational Centers to eleven schools under the supervision of
OBEC and local ONFIE offices in 15 provinces on 10 April 2013.According to Mr. Sermsak, on behalf of the Ministry of Education, he was pleased to see education playing a key role in human development, especially regarding the capacity building of Thai women. The Ministry has two main projects towards the ASEAN Community: educational development and the establishment of Thailand as an international education hub.
OBEC is also preparing schools and students for the ASEAN Community by improving the teaching of English and ASEAN languages as well as upgrading the curriculum to international standards. ONFIE is also preparing language courses for Thai people and, especially, Thai women.
Ms. Sansanee, congratulating the opening of the new ASEAN Educational Centers, talked about the policy of the Prime Minister, Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, to fund the development of Thai women with the aims of supporting female power for national improvement and solving the problem of human rights violations against women.
Dr. Phuangphet, representing the Minister of Education to chair the committee on mobilizing the Ministry of Education towards the ASEAN Community, said that the role of the Ministry was to provide Thai people with knowledge of ASEAN languages. The Thai Woman Empowerment Project is also important for improving the professional and language skills of Thai women and it shows the progress that the Ministry of Education is making in promoting the role of women.
The 26 ASEAN Educational Centers are under cooperation of OBEC and ONFIE with the aim of improving the language abilities of Thai women, particularly in Chinese and English. However, other ASEAN languages will be taught depending on the geographical position of each region of Thailand. For example, Burmese will be taught in the north, Lao in the northeast and Malay in the south.
The emphasis of the language training is to allow Thai women to know foreign languages so that they can communicate and work with people from foreign or neighboring countries. It will be initiated during this year and, in 2014, ONFIE will expand the centers to 1,000 areas and OBEC to 225 areas.
Dr. Benjalak added that the ASEAN Educational Centers would also teach the cultures and traditions of all ASEAN countries so that Thai people will know how to behave with other ASEAN people. This is because all ASEAN people are expected to know about their shared identities, their cultural diversity and their connection with the world.
The ASEAN Educational Centers will provide curricula that students of all ASEAN countries will use. In 2014, OBEC will enforce the curricula in public and private schools because it is responsible for taking care of primary and secondary schools in the country. The curricula will be downloadable from OBEC's website so that schools can adjust it to fit their specific contexts.
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