Published on December 19, 2005

NAP head joins school-transfer fight. New Aspiration Party leader and former education minister Chingchai Mongkoltham was yesterday named as an adviser to the movement against the transfer of state schools to local administrative organisations.

Thousands of teachers have been rallying for the complete scrapping of the transfer plan. “The transfer plan is not the right way to embrace decentralisation because it only allows politicians to enslave teachers while damaging the education of children,” said Narong Nathongkham, who chairs a teachers’ group in Roi Et. He was speaking as he and other teacher leaders led a major rally in Kalasin yesterday. – The Nation.

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PAY ROW: Teachers file police complaint

Three senior teachers yesterday lodged a police complaint against Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang for failing to honour the law requiring the government to pay C7-grade teachers an extra Bt3,500 a month for their academic work.

Paiboon Khunret, Jaturong Yomtaisong and Kachit Pongkamphan said they were acting for all C7 teachers.

“The complaint will soon be addressed to the National Counter Corruption Commission,” said Thanarat Somkane, a coordinator for an alliance to protect the education system. – The Nation.

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