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Education Minister Pheeraphon Nitikorn sparked controversy by suggesting teachers and educational staff adopt a sufficiency economy philosophy to reduce their debt and financial planning burdens. This proposal was made during the presentation of educational policies and guidelines for the Good Study, Happy Policy.
Another issue related to reducing the burden of teachers and educational staff is addressing their debt problems. Pheeraphon, also known as Big Uum, said people need to understand proper financial planning, which may involve providing knowledge that we ourselves, or potentially external lecturers, can offer.
“We should teach them how to save, how to use money, by implementing the sufficiency economy philosophy in their conduct.”
Big Uum went on to suggest another way to reduce teachers’ expenses would be…
