News Forum - Higher school dropouts due to poor subsidy

[Thaiger]

There is a rise in dropouts among poorer students. The government’s free education system has to be modified and adjusted so it’s more accessible to lower income families for a quality basic education, said an eminent lecturer at a forum held by the Equitable Education Fund. The education budget for the 2021 financial year was 76 billion baht but the public spending on education is minimal, according to a lecturer at Thammasat University’s faculty of economics, Chaiyuth Punyasavatsut. The lecturer proposed two ways to improve educational access by altering the free education system. The first is to raise the number of […]

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[Cabra]

To quote a political strategist... "It's the economy stupid"... If you want kids to stay in school create incentive by creating more good paying jobs for high school graduates.