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Schooling in Phuket
 As
Phuket has grown more cosmopolitan, education has kept pace. The
following are among those institutions now offered on the island:
- Dulwich
International College, an English-curriculum branch
of Dulwich College, the noted British public school. Secondary
school pupils may also board. (Kindergarten to Grade Twelve)
- Greenhouse
International Pre-school An international pre-school
for Children ages 1½ to 6 years. Learning through play with
parent participation encouraged.
- QSI
International School of Phuket (Nursery to Grade 12).
The school follows an academic curriculum equivalent to other
European and Asian international schools.
- a campus of the Prince
of Songkhla University, with, among other programmes,
a four-year English-curriculum degree course in hotel management
- the Rajapath Teachers' College, which, given the recent glut
of qualified teachers locally, is now focusing on the training
of "coastal guides" specializing in natural history and tour
guides
- two vocational schools for Thais
- a growing number of English-as-a-second-language schools.
Education in Thailand
Education in Thailand is free and compulsory for all children
between the ages of 7 and 14, and about 90 percent of the children
are enrolled in either public primary schools or those operated
by Buddhist monasteries. Only 33 percent of all eligible children
attend secondary schools. Children are officially required to
receive six years of education, and the government has announced
its intention to increase that number to nine years. The literacy
rate is 93 percent, higher than that of most other countries of
Southeast Asia.
Elementary and Secondary Schools
In the early 1990s nearly 7 million students received primary
education, including those at more than 31,400 public schools.
More than 2.2 million students attended either lower- or upper-level
secondary schools. In all of Thailand more than 577,000 teachers
taught 11.9 million students.
Universities and Colleges
In the early 1990s there were more than 600,000 students
enrolled in institutions of higher education in Thailand, including
more than 300,000 students enrolled at two open universities.
Thailand has 17 universities, the largest of which include Chulalongkorn
University (1917) in Bangkok and Chiang Mai University (1964)
in the north. In addition, the Asian Institute of Technology (1959),
in Bangkok, offers graduate degrees. In the early 1990s about
38,500 students attended 36 teacher-training colleges, which also
offer four-year degree programs.
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