2nd; they eliminated the double entry tourist visa in Laos
now
3rd;
BUT:::::::Thailand’s Education Ministry Seeks to Eliminate it’s Dependency on Foreign English Teachers
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Education Ministry plans to recruit 500 Thai teachers, in its first batch of teachers to teach English in state-run schools nationwide.
The 500 teachers are to undergo a “train-the-trainer” program in a bid to reduce the cost of hiring foreign English teachers, the Bangkok Post Reported.
Deputy Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin said the Thai teachers for the “train-the-trainer” program will be selected from public schools across the country to undergo the six-week intensive program from the British Council’s English specialists who have experience in English-language teaching management on a global scale.
Mr Teerakiat told the Bangkok Post reporter that the selected teachers will receive advanced instruction in teaching both written and spoken English and some new methods for effectively teaching English from the British Council’s English specialists
A group of teachers to join the program will be selected from all over the country. They have to be very good in English because after the six-week training program, they must be role models and trainers for other English teachers in their schools or schools near their area, Mr Teerakiat said.
SO once ASEAN ( IF ) really does happen , which i seriously doubt. Filipinos will flock in an take all the teaching positions away from the westerners left employed teaching english.He said the ministry recently conducted a survey of the capability of Thai English-language teachers across the country and found more than 43,000 Thai English language teachers in public schools, but only six of them have been found to have the ability to achieve native-like fluency in English.