News Forum - Lack of migrant workers forces government to appeal to Thais to fill vacant jobs

[Stonker]

3 hours ago, Yinn said:

Yes, have three style university 

มหาวิทยาลัย = university (doctor, lawyer, engineer etc) 

วิทยาลัยเทคนิค = technical college (Wood and Metal) 

วิทยาลัยอาชีว = vocational college

I don't want to nit-pick, but those aren't "schools" but higher education.

The only time wood or metal-work is taught in schools is in the afternoons, for some in some schools, not as part of the standard curriculum.

[Stonker]

2 hours ago, Stardust said:

By the way Thanatorn also critized the education system in Thailand and said it needed to reform and invest more in education because otherwise Thailand will be not able for the global competitions. The structure of companies is no more the same like in the past a lit of automatisation and another structure of jobs. To think about only cheap salarues are the reason they lost a lot of jobs to neighbourin countries is not true because nowaday there is a lot more automatisation and they need no more cheap workers, nowadays they need more skilled people. The time where everything is produced by manpower and hands is over but still in Thailand they think thats the reason. We are in the 21 th century with other technology than 50 years ago. They lost a lot to Vietnam because they have a better resource of skilled people plus better company and investor laws. Always blame cheap workers for everything is no more workable nowaday.

That's simply not correct.

A lot of the migrant workers do manual work that requires a certain level of skill, all learnt on the job, but which are tediously repetitive and demanding, physically hard work, such as seafood preparation and packing, and packed fruit drinks.

No high tech automation, no maths or critical thinking required, just semi-skilled cheap labour plus labour laws that are only "better" for investors because they allow cheap labour to be exploited in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam even more than it is here.