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Published on August 16, 2007

For this fiscal year, the Basic Education Commission has allocated Bt40,000 to each of the 500 EEO schools that showed efficient teaching according to "good" test results by their Mathayom 3 students from last year, secretary-general Kasama Varawarn said yesterday.

The funds worth Bt20 million in total would help the schools buy books and teaching materials to make their English classes more interesting and stimulating, she added.

The 1,000 schools with Mathayom 3 students testing at the level needing improvement would get Bt25,000 each - totalling Bt250 million - so they could hire trained English language teachers to arrange activities at the schools during school breaks.

The EEO schools, mostly small tambon-level schools in rural areas, were primary schools that were extended to Mathayom 3 to allow local children to continue studying at the same place rather than have to travel long distances to city schools.