Thread: University graduates complain after being denied teaching licences

UP TO 125 graduates from Loei Rajabhat University’s Faculty of Education have been unable to obtain teaching licences because their study programmes failed Higher Education Commission assessments and the Teachers’ Council of Thailand’s certification.


The university’s president Assoc Prof Dr Chao Inyai said he would help the students by offering job opportunities.

“We have 18 positions available at our university and our university’s demonstration school,” he said.

He added that the university would hire more teachers when vacancies arose.

“We are going to organise a golf tournament to raise funding,” Chao said.

Some graduates who passed the government’s Khru Keunthin (“returning to teach in hometowns”) project recruitment exam were disqualified as the Higher Education Commission stood by its decision to not endorse their study programmes.

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More to this story: The 5 year course lost it's accreditation in 2012, appealed and was again denied in 2013. These 125 graduates have been studying for 4 years in a course that they were never going to pass by Ministry standards, and the university knew this 4 years ago.

Then there's the stupid allowances for graduates of other degrees, as long as they took English as a major, even if they failed, they were allowed to sit for the government teacher exam, whereas Mrs Naam with her teacher's license and her masters in education, done in English, was denied because 1. The memo from the minister said batchelor degree and didn't mention masters, and 2. English was not her major even though she passed all her papers and got an honour degree.
Essentially, someone who studied a batchelor of tourism and failed English was entitled to become a government English teacher, but a masters in Education done (mostly) in English can not become a government teacher.
Meanwhile a teacher shortage means re-hiring those teachers that they've just forced out for retirement.

Everyone knows Thai education system is stuffed up, and nothing ever changes. It's my belief that the elite do not want the masses getting properly educated.