More vocational classes opened for Thai students

BANGKOK, July 24 (TNA) - The Thai government is implementing a policy on opening vocational classes as supplementary courses for high school-level students, aimed to widen both educational and vocational choices for the younger generations. Government Spokesman Lieutenant General Sansern Kaewkamnerd told journalists that Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha has supported the policy and assigned the Ministry of Education to open such the supplementary vocational classes for high school students to serve labor demands in each area where the courses are opened. The spokesman explained that the vocational courses are taught in addition to regular courses set in the curricula of high schools selected to be under the pilot project. According to the spokesman, there have been six high schools selected to be under the pilot project, where 310 students totally have been served under the policy, including those located in special development zones of the violence-plagued Thai Far South where the triangle modeled project on security, prosperity and sustainability has also been launched and some others located in special border development zones in the upper northern Chiang Rai Province and in Mae Sot area of the lower northern Tak Province. "The prime minister has given moral support for all schools participating in the pilot project and wants the initiative to be more choices for local students who will either further their studies at universities or find jobs to earn their living early after completing their high school level. The prime minister has also assigned the Thai Ministry of Education to work together with local business sector and communities on a joint plan on producing new personnel whose knowledge and skills are in the demands of local labor markets in separate areas, while also creating proper understanding among parents on benefits of the vocational courses", stated the spokesman. (TNA)