Teaching / teachers here, is a failure........plain and simple. Links below a few years old........BUT
Teachers fail exams on own subjects
An exam requirement says examinees who earn a mark of less than 59% are considered to have a low standard of knowledge.
Obec said up to 88% of 3,973 teachers who specialise in computer sciences failed the test. A high number of failing teachers was also found in biology (86% of 2,846), maths (84% of 5,498), physics (71% of 3,487), chemistry (64% of 3,088) and astronomy and earth sciences (63% of 529).
Obec has announced information and computer technology and English exam results of school directors. About 95% of about 40,000 directors failed the tests, Mr Chinnaworn said.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/edu ... n-subjects
Taking from the Post article above, I'm guessing........
80 per cent of Thailand's teachers fail own subject
HIGH school test results in Thailand have revealed a failure rate of more than 80 per cent in mathematics, biology and computer studies - among the teachers.
The failure rates for teachers who took exams in their own subjects were about 88 per cent for computer studies, 84 per cent for mathematics, 86 per cent in biology and 71 per cent in physics, the education ministry said.
And almost 95 per cent of about 37,500 secondary school directors did not score a pass mark in English and technology, according to the ministry.
The poor results have ignited controversy in Thailand about educational standards.
"Even teachers fail, so how can we raise the quality of students?" Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat was quoted as saying by the Bangkok Post newspaper.
More than 84,000 teachers and school directors took the exams, the first of their kind.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaki ... 5877646775
