Only 20,000 of the students attending are foreign students!Many are probably hear for the same reasons as many tourists come here!Mom and dads are left behind and they get to play in Thailand!Kingdom 'could become international education hub'
Commerce Ministry permanent secretary Karun Kittisataporn said Friday that Thailand has a high potential to be the international education hub of Asia.
He was addressing the opening ceremony of the Thailand International Education Exhibition 2007 at the high placed individual National Convention Centre.
The ministry expects that students' enrolment for international courses and schools in Thailand will grow by 510 per cent this year from last year's total revenue of Bt10 billion, thanks to the government's encouragement of more international programmes to open here.
Karun said the government is trying to develop educational systems to cope with international standards. The plan is to convince Thai students to choose international programmes here rather than going to study abroad. The idea is also to attract more foreign students to enrol in international programmes in the Kingdom.
Since the launch of the educational development policy, the number of Thai and foreign students enrolled in international programmes in Thailand has increased from 63,754 in 2004 to about 80,000 students last year.
Of this amount, 60,000 are Thai students who are enrolled in the international institutions instead of spending their money overseas.
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Me thinks the real goal is to keep the Thai students here,therefore more worldly ignorant and more Thai nationalistic!
