Thailand Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin places blame on previous governments for the lacklustre performance of Thai students in recent international assessments.
PM Srettha, whose government assumed power a mere three months ago, pledged to tackle the issue head-on and place a renewed focus on enhancing the country’s educational standards.
The Thai PM’s comments were motivated by the latest results from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) PISA test, where Thai students’ scores reached a 20-year low. Thailand finds itself in the unenviable group of seven countries, including Costa Rica, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, the Slovak Republic and Sweden, whose reading performance had been on the decline prior to the pandemic’s emergence.
The 61 year old prime minister noted the widespread criticism of Thai…
