There are 13 aspects to address pressing Big Rock issues in 5 areas, including
1. Creating opportunity and equality in education from early childhood; 2. Developing teaching and learning to competency-based learning to address changes in the 21st century; 3. Reforming mechanisms and production systems and developing teachers and educational personnel to meet quality standards; 4. Setting up structures that stress complete practice leading to employment and job development in bilateral vocational education and other fields; and 5. Reforming the role of research and governance of higher education institutions to sustainably support the development of Thailand out of the middle-income trap.
The book explores actions taken through Big Rock activities or reform activities on urgent issues that have resulted in change and benefited individuals, society, and the nation. In each duty, it has been through a clear operational design, to the point, reducing redundancy of departments, as well as being able to easily monitor, examine and evaluate. It is to increase the effectiveness of the nation’s education reforms and see tangible outcomes, such as the initiative to assist the development of teachers and kids outside of the formal education system, the unique conditional subsidy program for underprivileged students (equal financing). The Big Rock 1 is equality from early childhood to address the issue of out-of-form children. The Big Rock 2 is a project to advance the usage of the fundamental education core curriculum (curriculum performance foundation) and to establish learning management capabilities based on STEM education.
At the same time, reforming the country in education requires coordinating multi-level and multi-dimensional cooperation, from pushing forward the National Education Act, mobilizing social and media partners, decentralization to educational institutions, information management (Big Data) for education, as well as changing the worldview education of the public to keep up with the learning society into the future.
The ultimate objective of educational reform is to lessen inequality and raise education standards so that students of all age groups obtain a quality education that satisfies the requirements of 21st-century global development. It will lead to Thailand’s sustainable growth out of the middle-income trap and boost its competitiveness on the international scene.
In order to prevent Thailand from becoming stuck in backwardness and education waste and remaining stationary, the successful overhaul of the national education reform plan relies on the cooperation of all parties in moving Thai education forward in line with the changing rhythms of Thai society and the global society.
“Educational national reform” works. It will serve as a tool to improve Thai people’s quality in order to meet the nation’s objectives for sustainable development.
