In Thailand, parents can pay the schools to disregard their children’s lower test results and enroll the kids in the school instead of the kids with higher scores. It is well known that corruption is in many places here… and even in the education system.

These “educators” who accept money from rich parents are contributing to the low academic standards that haunt the Thai education system as well as destroying the hope of smart kids whose parents just don’t have enough money for bribery. And it’s letting a bunch of unqualified kids have access to an education that they’re not able to make full use of anyway.

In addition, some parents pay teachers to give their kids high grades, presumably so that they can then go on to the next level and have their teachers bribed further until finally they graduate from somewhere and become a future leader of the country. The sheer level of incompetence that I’ve encountered by more than 90% of the people here now has an explanation!

This also prevails in AIT (this is my personal opinion), where several students definitely do not have the required level to further their studies in MBA. How can they get B+/A in exams if they are not able to speak and/or write an intelligible English? Oh, and by the way, how did they manage to pass the English exam for the entrance?

This latent incompetence of some people can even be found in Hospital… (during a consultation in Bangkok Hospital, I had the chance to hear: “if it does not hurt when I touch, it’s not serious”).

If Thailand ever hopes to become something more than a developing country then the education system must change. The only problem is that it’s not just the corrupt teachers and school administrators. It’s the parents who pay the money in the first place…
There’s a lot of poor kids out there who deserve a chance to succeed but just can’t under the present system.

Again, things must change in Thailand.