Universal Secondary Education in Thailand : Policy Implications for Diversifying Occupational and Educational Choices

1998年Mobusho国际科学研究方案(项目编号08045010)下的主要研究工作包括以下两项活动：(1)调查泰国实施普及中等教育的倡议的成果；(2)于1998年10月28-29日在名古屋大学国际发展研究生院举办一次讲习班，介绍论文和每位研究人员进行的调查结果。1998年9月，Wakabayashi教授在Roi-et省的泰国同事的协助下进行了调查，以发现该省将过渡率从6年级延长到7年级的加速方案的成果。调查结果表明，该成果良好，1996年的过渡率达到86%。Hirosato和Lekuthai教授在Nakon rachasima省进行了一项问卷调查，涉及当地学校对G-9班…毕业生的政策和实际待遇更多。他们发现，学生没有得到足够的信息和指导，关于可能的选择替代方案，以决定他们在G-9水平教育后的未来职业。Ushiogi教授(首席研究员)和Sukontasap教授分别就亚洲和泰国普及中等教育的政策相关问题进行了研究。所有研究人员都根据调查活动的结果撰写了论文。这些论文于1998年10月底在名古屋大学GSID举行的研究研讨会上发表。另外两个系参加了讲习班：朱拉隆功大学经济学院院长Supatra Lohvacharakut教授和Sumalee Pitayanonm教授。皮塔亚农教授在研讨会上发表了她的论文。以下部分(参考文献)列出了研究人员投稿的文章的作者和标题。研究得出的结论是：(1)泰国普及中等教育计划将按计划实现其初步设定的目标，即提高从G-6到G-7的过渡率，尽管存在一些地区差异；(2)为从G-9毕业的学生提供的职业指导服务尚处于萌芽阶段，这方面(特别是在职业教育和培训方面)需要更多努力；(3)由于普及初中教育，中等教育似乎分成了两个独立的课程，职业和学术课程，较少

The major research efforts under the 1998 Mobusho International Scientific Research Program (Project No.08045010) consisted of the following two activities : (1) surveying the outcome of the Thai's initiative for implementing the universal secondary education, and (2) holding a workshop for presenting papers and the results of surveys conducted by each researcher held at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University in October 28-29,1998. Surveys were conducted by Professor Wakabayashi with an assistance by Thai colleagues in Roi-Et Province in September, 1998 to find the achievement of the province's accelerated program for extending the transitional rate from Grade 6 to Grade 7. The achievement was found fine, with the transitional rate being achieved at 86% in 1996. Professors Hirosato and Lekuthai conducted a questionnaire survey in Nakon Rachasima Province involving the local schools' policies and actual treatments for students graduating from the G-9 classes … More . They found that students were not given enough information and guidance as to the possible choice alternatives to decide on their future careers after the G-9 level education. Professors Ushiogi (head researcher) and Sukontasap conducted research on policy related issues for universalizing the secondary education in Asia and Thailand respectively.All researchers wrote papers based on the results of their survey activities. These papers were presented at the research workshop held in GSID,Nagoya University in the end of October, 1998. Two additional faculties participated in the workshop : Professors Supatra Lohvacharakut and Sumalee Pitayanonm, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University. Professor Pitayanon contributed her paper at the workshop. The publication list shown in the following section (References) exhibit authors and titles of articles contributed by researchers. As conclusions of the research, it was pointed out that : (1) the Thailand universal secondary education program is going to achieve its initially set target for increasing the transitional rate from G-6 to G-7 as planned, although some regional differences are created, (2) career guidance services to be provided for students graduating from the G-9 level are at the embryonic stage and more efforts are needed in this area (especially in the area of vocational education and training), and (3) the secondary education looks like diverging into two separate courses, vocational and academic ones, as a result of universal lower secondary education, Less