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Numerous schools in and around Bangkok closed Wednesday due to flooding

September 7, 2022
by jeerapas@thaipbs.or.th
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A number of schools and universities in Bangkok and its suburbs are closed today (Wednesday), due to heavy flooding in many areas of the capital following heavy rain overnight. Kasetsart…

Community isolation to be reactivated as new COVID infections surge in Bangkok

July 8, 2022
by Chanwanpen
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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is considering reactivating community isolation facilities in 50 districts for COVID-19 patients in slum areas, to separate the infected from those over 60 years old,…

Thai secondary student hides cannabis in a water bottle for school

July 4, 2022
by Nad Bunnag
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Dr. Sutheera Uerpairojkit, a paediatrician at Ramathibodi Hospital, posted the story on her Facebook page of a secondary student who secretly brought cannabis to school in a water bottle and…

Bangkok Governor says student hairstyles have no impact on performance

June 23, 2022
by Chanwanpen
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Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt told school administrators today (Thursday), during an inspection tour of a city-run school in Din Daeng district related to the cannabis-free policy implemented in all city-run…

Cannabis ban imposed on schools, pot smoking in public banned from Friday

June 17, 2022
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The Thai Ministry of Education has issued a set of regulations, applied in all schools since yesterday (Thursday), to prevent abuse of cannabis and hemp among students and teaching staff,…

On-site classes in Thailand can resume under new guidelines, exams for COVID-19 cases allowed

February 23, 2022
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The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has issued a set of guidelines for on-site learning, to enable schools to resume classes as normal, while COVID-19 infections surge. CCSA Spokesman…

Thai schools advised to suspend group activities to prevent COVID-19 infections

January 28, 2022
by Chanwanpen
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Schools nationwide have been told to suspend all group activities after clusters of infections, among students and teachers, have been found in schools in 11 provinces, including a boarding school…

More than 300 students at Ratchaburi boarding school catch COVID-19

January 27, 2022
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More than 300 female students attending a boarding school, in the Pak Tho district of Thailand’s Ratchaburi province, have been found to be infected with COVID-19, but none are in…

Students gather outside of CPS headquarters to stage one of several mass “Walkout for COVID Safety” at high schools due to the Omicron spread in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. January 14, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

As Omicron fuels surge, U.S. students stage walkouts to protest in-person classes

January 15, 2022
by Nad Bunnag
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BOSTON/CHICAGO, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Hundreds of students in Boston and Chicago walked out of classes on Friday in protests demanding a switch to remote learning as a surge in…

Ubon Ratchathani closes schools, cinemas, fitness clubs, gyms and stadia to stem COVID-19 spread

January 3, 2022
by Kitipat Chuensukjit
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Citing rising COVID-19 infections in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Ubon Ratchathani, Governor Pongrat Phiromrat has ordered the closure of all schools, cinemas, fitness clubs, gyms, stadia and sports grounds from…

All schools in Kalasin municipality closed until December 30th over Omicron concerns

December 26, 2021
by Kitipat Chuensukjit
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The communicable disease committee in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Kalasin has ordered all schools and educational institutes located in the municipality to close until December 30th, after it was discovered…

Students attend morning assembly as schools reopen due to the easing of restrictions after a temporary closure to combat the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Bangkok on February 1, 2021. Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

Sharing school vans blamed for COVID infections among students in Ubon Ratchathani

November 18, 2021
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Travelling together in school vans by students of different schools, in Muang district of Thailand’s north-eastern province of Ubon Ratchathani, is being blamed for new COVID-19 infections by provincial health…

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Preparations underway to deal with COVID in Bangkok’s city-run schools

November 5, 2021
by jeerapas@thaipbs.or.th
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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has adopted measures to deal with COVID-19 infections in hundreds of schools under its jurisdiction, which are due to reopen for on-site learning on November…

Some schools in Thailand’s northeast closed over COVID concerns first week of reopening

November 5, 2021
by Nad Bunnag
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Some schools, including kindergartens, in Thailand’s northeast have been ordered closed over COVID-19 concerns following infections found among students and teachers, only in the first week of reopening of many…

Students attend morning assembly as schools reopen due to the easing of restrictions after a temporary closure to combat the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Bangkok on February 1, 2021. Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

Many schools in Thailand reopen for in-person learning

November 1, 2021
by Mintra Adair
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Many schools around the country resumed on-site classes for the second semester today, after being closed since May due to COVID-19 pandemic. At Bodindecha School in Bangkok, the director, Wisit…

Most Thai schools to reopen Monday if they pass assessments, requirements

October 28, 2021
by Nad Bunnag
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Most Thai schools are reopening, both fully and partially on Monday (November 1st), and the Thai Ministry of Education has rolled out a set of guidelines to be followed by…

Thailand’s education ministry to inoculate 4.5 million students with Pfizer starting October

September 14, 2021
by Chanwanpen
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Education minister Treenuch Thienthong has revealed a plan to start inoculation of students in all 29 of Thailand’s COVID-19 “dark red” provinces in October, so that the second semester of…

All schools, kindergartens in Khon Kaen closed till July 16 amid COVID-19 spread

July 2, 2021
by Mintra Adair
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All schools, kindergartens and child development centres in Thailand’s northeastern province of Khon Kaen have been ordered to close until July 16th amid an ongoing surge of COVID-19 infections in…

Schools in several provinces closed as COVID-19 infections re-emerge

June 22, 2021
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Schools in several of Thailand’s provinces have been ordered to close, just a week after the start of the new school term, as a number of students have been found…

Phitsanulok schools closed after one day of reopening following COVID-19 infections

June 16, 2021
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Six schools in Chart Trakarn and Nakhon Thai districts of Thailand’s northern province of Phitsanulok have been ordered to close until further notice, after only one day of school reopening…

All schools, except in Samut Sakhon, expected to reopen on February 1st

January 27, 2021
by Preeyaporn Kijpitaksin
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Thailand’s Education Minister Nuttapol Teepsuwan has announced that all schools and educational institutes under the ministry’s supervision will resume in-person classes on February 1st, with the exception of those in…

Bangkok imposes lockdown restrictions to contain COVID-19

January 1, 2021
by Kitipat Chuensukjit
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Effective from midnight tonight (Friday), all recreational, educational, entertainment and sports venues in Bangkok will close until further notice, as the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) intensifies its efforts to stem…

Schools told to open spaces for students to discuss politics and education

August 20, 2020
by Kitipat Chuensukjit
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In another move to appease protesting students, Deputy Permanent Secretary at Thailand’s Ministry of Education, Ms. Duriya Amatavivat, issued an urgent order today instructing all schools to provide space for…

Students have their temperatures checked and receive hand sanitiser to disinfect their hands as they arrive at the Makkasan Phitthaya government secondary school in Bangkok on July 1, 2020, as schools reopened after being temporarily closed due to the threat of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. – Children across Thailand, some of whom have been kept at home under self-quarantine by their parents due to coronavirus fears, have now returned to their classrooms as all schools reopen in the country, though authorities recommended that class sizes be restricted to 20-25 students while doorknobs, desks and other areas at risk of spreading infection be sanitised frequently throughout the day. (Photo by Romeo GACAD / AFP)

Schools tentatively set to reopen as normal on August 13th

August 7, 2020
by Kasipat Wongvitayakamjorn
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A panel of the CCSA has agreed to allow schools to reopen as normal, tentatively on August 13th, without the need for social distancing, but students will be required to…

OBEC to propose to CCSA this Friday that its 4,500 schools reopen

August 5, 2020
by Kitipat Chuensukjit
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Thailand’s Office of Basic Education Commission (OBEC) will, on Friday, propose to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) that all the 4,500 schools under its supervision resume classes. Since…

All schools in Bangkok closed as smog problem worsens

January 30, 2019
by Kitipat Chuensukjit
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The Ministry of Education has ordered all schools in Bangkok closed for two days starting Thursday as smog condition in and around Bangkok worsened today. Meanwhile, Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwangkuang…

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