EDUCATION

Thirty-seven Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11 are participating in the largest joint military exercise in United States Pacific Command, Cobra Gold 2011, which takes place in Thailand every year.

A high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is defending its decision to segregate its students by race and gender.The scheme, at McCaskey East High School, separates black students from the rest of the school body, and then further breaks it down into black females and black males.

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Mahanakorn University of Technology in Thailand today announced the availability of a new Cisco CCNA® Security course as part of the Cisco® Networking Academy® program to develop a highly skilled, next-generation workforce in Thailand.

A piece of ligislation that will give teachers nationwide more welfare benefits will be tabled to the House of Representatives when parliament reconvenes its ordinary session late this month, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said in his "Confidence in Thailand with PM Abhisit" programme on Channel 11 on Sunday.

THE educational performance of Thai students this year has been poor despite attempts by various agencies to improve the quality of their education, according to local academics.

A University at Buffalo Law School professor with a special interest in the legal system and culture of Thailand will receive the honorary degree of doctor of laws from one of that nation's major universities.

Her Royal Highness Princess Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand visited IUPUI today (Dec. 17, 2010) and attended a presentation by Patrick Rooney, executive director of the IU Center on Philanthropy. Afterward she was greeted by IUPUI students and faculty from Thailand.

The scores of most Thai students are below international average in all subjects, according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009.

Inside one of the many sprawling orange orchards that stretch across northern Chiang Mai's Fang district near the Thai-Burmese border stands a simple, one-storey building with a rough concrete floor, sticks of bamboo for walls, and a thatched roof. Once used by the orchard's owner to store sacks of fertiliser and farm implements, it is now utilised for something much more precious and important: A place where migrant children can receive an education.

THE Department of Mental Health will conduct a major study to measure the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of nearly 100,000 primary and secondary students across the country after finding the IQ of Thai teenagers was at a critically low level.