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Ten years in, or nothing: the rule keeping foreign teachers out of Thailand’s private school fund
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Foreign teachers still cannot join the private school welfare fund, and the minister points to how long they stayEducation Minister Prasert Chantararuangthong said on 10 August, after a meeting of the Private Education Commission, that the question of allowing foreign teachers to pay into the private school teachers’ welfare fund remains unresolved.
If you teach here, this is the practical positionThe request itself tells you where foreign teachers currently stand.
Four Bangkok private schools have applied to closeIn the same meeting, Prasert said four private schools in Bangkok have now applied to shut down, citing economic conditions and Thailand’s falling birth rate.
The underlying arithmeticThailand’s birth rate has been falling for years, and private schools feel it first.
The survey Prasert has ordered will show how far this reaches for foreign teachers in Thailand.