Thread: Is this standard procedue in Thailand?

I was asked for some help on an end of school project. It was from an 18 yr old who has a uni place next year to study electronics.
Teacher has asked students to program an arduino to make a metal detector. All sounds fair enough, although I would have expected the project to be carried out in groups of 3 or 4 students. I would also expect the hardware to be supplied.

It turns out each student has to pay out around B1000 and learn about the Arduino without tuition. Not that easy when most don't understand enough English to program in C.

Or....

...They can pay the teacher B5000 and get a pass for the project..

Apparently the rest of the class has opted for the latter option. The student I'm helping has bought the hardware and made a decent job of trying to program it. I am just breaking problem into bite size chunks so he can see where he went wrong.

Question: is this standard practice for Thailand?

Originally Posted by Troy

I was asked for some help on an end of school project. It was from an 18 yr old who has a uni place next year to study electronics.
Teacher has asked students to program an arduino to make a metal detector. All sounds fair enough, although I would have expected the project to be carried out in groups of 3 or 4 students. I would also expect the hardware to be supplied.

It turns out each student has to pay out around B1000 and learn about the Arduino without tuition. Not that easy when most don't understand enough English to program in C.

Or....

...They can pay the teacher B5000 and get a pass for the project..

Apparently the rest of the class has opted for the latter option. The student I'm helping has bought the hardware and made a decent job of trying to program it. I am just breaking problem into bite size chunks so he can see where he went wrong.

Question: is this standard practice for Thailand?

I once heard the story of a woman who was interviewed by a friend of a friend for a job and the job ad had specified a high level of English. She had graduated from uni with top marks in English and glowing references from her tutors but was only able to say 3 words in the interview "I lady bitnit."

T.I.T.

Btw, this thread is begging for the contributions of tax and seekingasylum.

A couple of fixes to the hardware and a revamp of the software has got the basics working. The changes to the wiring were easy enough to explain since the idea was understood. The software was much harder to explain in a couple of hours and required lots of help in translation with Mrs Troy. It really needed a week of teaching with more example circuits. If I had known, I would have brought my Arduino boards over with some additional components like LEDs and switches to get each point across.
In the end, student was happy and says he can finish off the fine tuning and present to class. Saved himself B5000 as well!

Let's hope the teacher doesn't fail him for not paying.

Well done Troy.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Let's hope the teacher doesn't fail him for not paying

...always a threat...showing up the teacher (who may not understand what he/she is looking at) requires an "educational" put down of an uppity student: disqualified because a) hair too long, b) pants too short, c) wrong shoes, d) it's Wednesday, etc...

Originally Posted by Edmond

Let's hope the teacher doesn't fail him for not paying.

yep,,,,

Originally Posted by tomcat

...always a threat...showing up the teacher (who may not understand what he/she is looking at) requires an "educational" put down of an uppity student: disqualified because a) hair too long, b) pants too short, c) wrong shoes, d) it's Wednesday, etc...

The boy is quite industrious; he's worked through the holidays over the last year or so and saved enough money for a laptop. I helped him choose one last week. It seems he has already secured his Uni place and starts in a couple of months.
It appears this is an end of school project and this Teacher has put the "pass" fee up from B3500 last year.
The boy was never going to pay such a fee and was determined to learn how to complete the project. I just helped him achieve his goal.
One hopes the teacher shows some respect; worthy of a school prize IMO.

Originally Posted by Troy

One hopes the teacher shows some respect; worthy of a school prize IMO

If he has talent as you say I hope he gets a scholarship and leaves a corrupt system where deference to older/richer /lighter skin or well connected.
The staus quo is terrified of democracy or meritocracy as it would expose the avaricious snouts bullies and "connected'. I do not imagine it will happen in my lifetime, in fact under Leekpai there seemed to be hope of moving slowly like S Korea from dictatorship into the middle income alternating elected regimes.

Of course in Germany the Leipziger and Dresdner Stasi guided by Putin was as brutal and repressive until 1990 . I had dealings with them, sent back to Prague and to be fair to the Thais they just want cash and or sexual favours, you don't have to believe in anything or join the commie version of the Hitler youth like Merkel. Politicians just say vote for us with no real manifesto other than our corrupt team will out promise the other.

Well done for helping a keen student I hope he learns from an internship in a civilized democratic Republic like Finland , Estonia, France, Switzerland, Czechia, Austria or Ireland where there is recognition and reward for talent and space to question authority tradition and religion.

Originally Posted by david44

The staus quo is terrified of democracy or meritocracy

...definitely...hence the need for Thainess...

Originally Posted by Troy

They can pay the teacher B5000 and get a pass for the project..

Absolutely disgracefull.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

disgracefull.

ful


You'd have been broke, Joe.

Joking aside.


We've got 3 legit doctorates here for $9,999 a pop, if Dill fancies moving up to the role of 'Bus conductor'.

Originally Posted by Edmond

doctorates here for $9,999

would $3333 get me a third of a Willy?
It might come in handy some knights to roll out the snags

I’m pretty sure it’s an all or nothing deal.