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In addition, special financial support for education in 1998 also comes from the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank in the form of loan projects to help alleviate economic impacts on education. |
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At present most private institutions are proprietorial schools, with a few prestigious schools still associated with Christian denomination. The OPEC is given authority to supervise and subsidize private schools in Thailand. There are two categories of private institutions : 1) general education private schools which range from kindergartens to primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and universities, and 2) vocational education private schools or colleges. The MOE also classifies private schools into two categories : 1) Non-subsidized schools are private schools that are more prosperous and can be self-supporting including those set up after 1974 excluded from the benefit of government subsidies by the Cabinet decision, and consequently the government does not control the ceiling of the school fees that the school may charge. 2) Subsidized schools are private schools established before 1974 and still dependent on financial support from the government. These schools can be divided into 2 sub-categories : those receiving 100 percent of the per student recurrent costs and those receiving 40 percent of the per student recurrent costs. The subsidized schools predominate in the country at present. Those private schools which receive 100 percent of the per student recurrent costs are usually connected with charity and religious foundations, whereas the 40 percent subsidized schools are proprietorial. The total annual subsidy which the government grants to private schools has been increasing from 366.7 million Baht in 1977 to 4,083.8 million Baht in 1998. |
