Thailand’s scores on the OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) exams, which measure reading, mathematical skills, and science knowledge in 15-year olds have never been strong. In 2019, Thailand’s PISA scores ranked 66th among 79 countries. It reflects an education system that everyone knows is broken and that no one has been able to fix.
Given the tedium of seeing Thailand do terribly on the PISA exams time and time again, this year’s scores should have come as no surprise. Across all sections, Thai students performed poorly, ranking below several ASEAN peers such as Vietnam and Malaysia. But this year, the results have certainly sparked a fair amount of national uproar.
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