PUBLISHED: 7 Sep 2024 at 05: 48
After discovering six like facilities in Surat Thani and ordering their shutdown, the Education Ministry has ordered regional government to look into whether there are Burmese language learning centers operating improperly in their regions.
A video of pupils singing the country’s and Thailand’s national anthems during a school council at the southern province’s Myinttar Yeink Bang Kung Learning Centre went viral, leading to a problem to the Education Ministry.
The learning center was discovered to be operating improperly on the home that once belonged to the now-defunct Bang Kung Technological College in the tambon Bang Kung of Surat Thani’s Muang area. Education Minister Pol Gen Permpoon Chidchob and Suthep Kaengsanthia, the agency’s continuous minister, issued an order to search for any comparable learning facilities in response to the problem.
The center was opened allegedly without receiving established authorization a while back, according to Surat Thani lieutenant governor Sukont Noopakdee. According to him, it remained in operation even after the Surat Thani Provincial Education Office mandated its closing in 2022, adding that 1, 250 students from Myanmar are currently enrolled at this club.
Officials in Surat Thani may form a task force to control the situation and prevent the service from reopening, according to the provincial education company, and the provincial training office has requested that Muang Surat Thani Provincial Police find the individuals responsible for running it.
He added that all six Burmese language learning centres in the state, including the Myinttar Yeink learning center and five others located in the Po Wai group, the Wat Som Wang Wanaram area, Muang area, Khiri Ratthanikhom district, Don Sak district and Koh Phangan, have been shut down.
Government organizations are reportedly going to investigate the work permits and residency positions of employees employed by the club.
Sompong Srakaew, director of the Labour Protection Network ( LPN), criticized the Education Ministry’s decision to close the learning centers, arguing that the government should provide shelter and protection to Myanmar’s migrant children because their homes are suffering from internal conflict.