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special Education As mentioned earlier, the DGE runs its own special schools for the deaf, blind, mentally retarded, physically handicapped, and multiple handicapped, and cooperates with private foundations and state hospitals in providing personnel, equipment and technical assistance to their special schools or programmes for blind, hard-of-hearing and slow learners who may attend classes in regular schools. Welfare Education Welfare education is provided for those who are socially and culturally disadvantaged. It is provided for children who are deprived of opportunity to attend compulsory primary classes in regular schools covering a wide range of culturally and socially disadvantaged groups. Welfare students are not only provided with free education, but also accommodation, food , clothing, equipment, textbooks and other necessities. Students are given special vocational training relevant to the locality of a particular school for future employment. |
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F. Education Provided by Other Agencies for Specific Purposes |
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Education is also organized by various agencies according to their specific needs at secondary and higher education levels (Table 4.8). Courses are offered for graduates from primary schools to upper secondary schools, both from general and vocational streams. All responsible agencies have developed their own curricula which can be classified into 4 groups: 1) Curricula for the production of professional soldiers and policeinclude the curriculum of Preparatory School for the Armed Forces Academies which requires 2 years of study after graduation from secondary school Grade 4, curricula of the military, naval, and air forces academies as well as the police cadet requiring 4 years of study, and curricula for preparing warrant officers for graduates from lower and upper secondary schools. 2) Curricula for specific technicians include those for training military technicians to work in the armed forces, and those for training specific technicians for various agencies such as Irrigation College, Railway Technical School, etc. 3) Medical sciences curricula are organized for secondary school graduates requiring 1-4 years of study in the institutions of the Ministry of Public Health, BMA and the Thai Red Cross Society. 4) Curricula for other specific purposes are organized for graduates from lower secondary schools, both in general and vocational stream, and general upper secondary schools as required by each institution, such as the Merchant Marine Training Centre, Cooperatives School, Postal School and Civil Aviation Training Centre, etc. |
