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→‎Education Reform 1995: Right after the 1997 Asian financial crisisIncome in the northeast, the poorest part of the country, rose by 46 percent from 1998to 2006.<ref>NESDB, [http://www.nesdb.go.th/Portals/0/eco_datas/account/gpp/GPP%201998-2006.zip Economic Data, 1995–2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719090712/http://www.nesdb.go.th/Portals/0/eco_datas/account/gpp/GPP%201995-2006.zip |date=19 July 2011 }}</ref> Nationwide poverty fell from 21.3 to 11.3 percent.<r...
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In 1994, Sukavich joined the [[New Aspiration Party]] (NAP) of retired general [[Chavalit Yongchaiyudh]] and was appointed deputy prime minister in [[Chuan Leekpai]]'s cabinet in October of the same year.<ref name="Wingfield02_269">{{Cite book |author=Tom Wingfield |title=Democratization and economic crisis in Thailand |editor=Edmund Terence Gomez |work=Political Business in East Asia |publisher=Routledge |year=2002 |page=269}}</ref> Together with [[Chamlong Srimuang]] and transport minister [[Vichit Surapongchai]] he formed a team to tackle Bangkok's traffic problems.<ref>{{Cite book |editor=[[Economist Intelligence Unit]] |title=Country Report: Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) |year=1994 |page=21}}</ref> However, he lost that position after a few weeks. Sukavich was appointed minister of education in [[Banharn Silpa-archa]]'s cabinet in July 1995. In addition, he was the secretary-general of the NAP from 1995 to 1997. He was alleged to have contributed 100 million baht to the party's campaign fund.<ref name="Wingfield02_269" />
In 1994, Sukavich joined the [[New Aspiration Party]] (NAP) of retired general [[Chavalit Yongchaiyudh]] and was appointed deputy prime minister in [[Chuan Leekpai]]'s cabinet in October of the same year.<ref name="Wingfield02_269">{{Cite book |author=Tom Wingfield |title=Democratization and economic crisis in Thailand |editor=Edmund Terence Gomez |work=Political Business in East Asia |publisher=Routledge |year=2002 |page=269}}</ref> Together with [[Chamlong Srimuang]] and transport minister [[Vichit Surapongchai]] he formed a team to tackle Bangkok's traffic problems.<ref>{{Cite book |editor=[[Economist Intelligence Unit]] |title=Country Report: Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) |year=1994 |page=21}}</ref> However, he lost that position after a few weeks. Sukavich was appointed minister of education in [[Banharn Silpa-archa]]'s cabinet in July 1995. In addition, he was the secretary-general of the NAP from 1995 to 1997. He was alleged to have contributed 100 million baht to the party's campaign fund.<ref name="Wingfield02_269" />

Rangsitpol as Minister of Education launched a series of education reforms in 1995. The aim was to enhance the quality of education from 1995 to achieve educational excellence by 2007.
{{quote|The objective of education reform is to create learning individual, organization, and society. An educated person or the authentic learning outcome should possess the following abilities and characteristics which are based on Thai cultural heritage and appropriate level of education: good physical and mental health, critical thinking, intellectual inquisitiveness, professionalism, sense of responsibility, honesty, self-sacrifice, perseverance, team spirit, adherence to democracy, and love for king, country, and religion.}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dachakupt |first1=Pimpan |title=The current innovation in curriculum development in Thailand |journal=International Journal of Curriculum Development and Practice|date=1999 |volume=1 |pages=93–101 |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jcrdaen/1/1/1_KJ00006742072/_pdf |accessdate=18 September 2018}}</ref>


He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, representing Bangkok's 13th constituency. After New Aspiration's electoral victory, Sukavich again was a deputy prime minister in Chavalit Yongchaiyudh's cabinet in addition to his post as Minister of Education. Moreover, he served as [[Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization]] (SEAMEO) council president in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.seameo.org/vl/library/dlwelcome/photogallery/president/sukavich.htm |title=Visits of the SEAMEO Council President 1996 |work=SEAMEO Library |accessdate=12 November 2018}}</ref> He was involved in a long-running scandal over the purchase of overpriced computers for schools,<ref name="Wingfield02_269" /> but was cleared of any wrongdoing during a subsequent defamation suit.<ref>{{Cite news |title=All Quiet on Western Front |newspaper=Bangkok Post |date=28 February 2002}}</ref> Sukavich was also criticised for keeping in force a ban on "gender/sex deviant" and "wrong-gendered" (i.e. homosexual and transsexual) students at the [[Rajabhat University system|Rajabhat teacher training institutes]],<ref>{{Cite book |author=Rosalind C. Morris |title=Educating Desire: Thailand, Transnationalism, Transgression |editor=Phillip Brian Harper |work=Queer Transexions of Race, Nation, and Gender |publisher=Duke University Press |year=1997 |pages=53–79, at p. 54}}</ref> saying that "homosexuals are no different to drug addicts who need treatment. ... I do not want these people to be role models for children." He retired from the ministerial post in August 1997, being replaced by his intra-party rival [[Chingchai Mongcoltam]], who lifted the anti-gay ban.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Peter A. Jackson |title=Offending Images: Gender Sexual Minorities, and State Control of the Media in Thailand |editor=Russell H. K. Heng |work=Media Fortunes, Changing Times: ASEAN States in Transition |publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |year=2002 |pages=216–217}}</ref> Sukavich also lost the deputy premiership in November 1997 when Chavalit was ousted by a no-confidence vote during the [[1997 Asian financial crisis|Asian financial crisis]].
He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, representing Bangkok's 13th constituency. After New Aspiration's electoral victory, Sukavich again was a deputy prime minister in Chavalit Yongchaiyudh's cabinet in addition to his post as Minister of Education. Moreover, he served as [[Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization]] (SEAMEO) council president in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.seameo.org/vl/library/dlwelcome/photogallery/president/sukavich.htm |title=Visits of the SEAMEO Council President 1996 |work=SEAMEO Library |accessdate=12 November 2018}}</ref> He was involved in a long-running scandal over the purchase of overpriced computers for schools,<ref name="Wingfield02_269" /> but was cleared of any wrongdoing during a subsequent defamation suit.<ref>{{Cite news |title=All Quiet on Western Front |newspaper=Bangkok Post |date=28 February 2002}}</ref> Sukavich was also criticised for keeping in force a ban on "gender/sex deviant" and "wrong-gendered" (i.e. homosexual and transsexual) students at the [[Rajabhat University system|Rajabhat teacher training institutes]],<ref>{{Cite book |author=Rosalind C. Morris |title=Educating Desire: Thailand, Transnationalism, Transgression |editor=Phillip Brian Harper |work=Queer Transexions of Race, Nation, and Gender |publisher=Duke University Press |year=1997 |pages=53–79, at p. 54}}</ref> saying that "homosexuals are no different to drug addicts who need treatment. ... I do not want these people to be role models for children." He retired from the ministerial post in August 1997, being replaced by his intra-party rival [[Chingchai Mongcoltam]], who lifted the anti-gay ban.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Peter A. Jackson |title=Offending Images: Gender Sexual Minorities, and State Control of the Media in Thailand |editor=Russell H. K. Heng |work=Media Fortunes, Changing Times: ASEAN States in Transition |publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |year=2002 |pages=216–217}}</ref> Sukavich also lost the deputy premiership in November 1997 when Chavalit was ousted by a no-confidence vote during the [[1997 Asian financial crisis|Asian financial crisis]].
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According to John Cogan (Professor of Education, University of Minnesota, USA) and Derricott, Ray (Director, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Liverpool) · 2014 in ''Citizenship for the 21st Century: An International Perspective on Education'', he saw education as "the instrument for human development, creating peace for mankind and national security"
According to John Cogan (Professor of Education, University of Minnesota, USA) and Derricott, Ray (Director, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Liverpool) · 2014 in ''Citizenship for the 21st Century: An International Perspective on Education'', he saw education as "the instrument for human development, creating peace for mankind and national security"

UNESCO Report that Thailand education reform has led to the following results:
The educational budget increased from 133 billion [[Thai baht|baht]] in 1996 to 163 billion baht in 1997 (22.5 percent increase). Since 1996, first grade students have been taught English and computer literacy. Professional advancement from teacher level 6 to teacher level 7 without having to submit academic work for consideration was approved by the Thai government. Free 12 years education for all children provided by the government. The free 12 year education was in the 1997 Constitution of Thailand and gave access to all citizens.<ref>{{cite book |title=Education Management Profile: Thailand |date=1998 |publisher=UNESCO PRINCIPAL REGIONAL OFFICE FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC |location=Bangkok |url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001135/113535Eo.pdf |accessdate=September 2019}}</ref>

Right after the [[1997 Asian financial crisis]]Income in the northeast, the poorest part of the country, rose by 46 percent from 1998to 2006.<ref>NESDB, [http://www.nesdb.go.th/Portals/0/eco_datas/account/gpp/GPP%201998-2006.zip Economic Data, 1995–2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719090712/http://www.nesdb.go.th/Portals/0/eco_datas/account/gpp/GPP%201995-2006.zip |date=19 July 2011 }}</ref> Nationwide poverty fell from 21.3 to 11.3 percent.<ref name="WBBO-200511" /> Thailand's [[Gini coefficient]], a measure of [[income inequality]], fell from .525 in 2000 to .499 in 2004 (it had risen from 1996 to 2000) versus [[1997 Asian financial crisis ]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Thailand Economic Monitor November 2005 |url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTTHAILAND/Resources/Economic-Monitor/2005nov-econ-full-report.pdf |publisher=World Bank |accessdate=5 January 2019 }}</ref>




In 2001 Sukavich was re-elected as member of parliament, being number three of the New Aspiration Party list. Together with party leader Chavalit Yongchaiyudh and most of the NAP lawmakers, he switched to the [[Thai Rak Thai Party]] (TRT) of prime minister [[Thaksin Shinawatra]] later in the same year. In 2005, he was re-elected once again, this time a representative of the TRT party list. As one of 111 executive members of the TRT, he was banned from political activities for five years after the [[2006 Thai coup d'état|2006 coup d'état]]. He expressed no wish to return to politics after the ban expired.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.siamintelligence.com/111-return-subtle-impact/ |title=การกลับมาของบ้านเลขที่ 111 ไม่มีอะไรเปลี่ยนแปลงที่ "หลังฉาก" |newspaper=Siam Intelligence |date=5 June 2012}}</ref>
In 2001 Sukavich was re-elected as member of parliament, being number three of the New Aspiration Party list. Together with party leader Chavalit Yongchaiyudh and most of the NAP lawmakers, he switched to the [[Thai Rak Thai Party]] (TRT) of prime minister [[Thaksin Shinawatra]] later in the same year. In 2005, he was re-elected once again, this time a representative of the TRT party list. As one of 111 executive members of the TRT, he was banned from political activities for five years after the [[2006 Thai coup d'état|2006 coup d'état]]. He expressed no wish to return to politics after the ban expired.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.siamintelligence.com/111-return-subtle-impact/ |title=การกลับมาของบ้านเลขที่ 111 ไม่มีอะไรเปลี่ยนแปลงที่ "หลังฉาก" |newspaper=Siam Intelligence |date=5 June 2012}}</ref>

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Sukavich Rangsitpol
Born (1935-12-05) December 5, 1935 (age 88)
Bangkok, Thailand
Known forChairman of Expressway Authority of Thailand (1993–1994)
Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand (1994), (1996)
Minister of Education (1995–1996)
SpousePewpong (Narongdej/Suwanamas) (1964)
ChildrenThree[1][2][3][dead link]
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Sukavich Rangsitpol (Thai: สุขวิช รังสิตพล RTGS: Sukkhawit Rangsitphon; born 5 December 1935) is a Thai business executive and politician. He served as deputy prime minister (1994, 1996–97) and minister of education (1995–97) of Thailand.[4]

Life and career

Sukavich completed a bachelor's degree in political science at Thammasat University in 1960 and the Management Development Program of Asian Institute of Management, Manila in 1976. He started working as a sales representative for Caltex Oil Thailand in 1961, being promoted to sales supervisor, district manager, general sales manager and general manager over the following decades. He finally served as chairman and managing director of that company during the early 1990s.[5]

Sukavich was appointed to the post-coup National Legislative Assembly in 1991[6] as well as to the Thai Senate in 1992. In 1993–94 he was the governor of the Expressway and Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (ETA).[7]

In 1994, Sukavich joined the New Aspiration Party (NAP) of retired general Chavalit Yongchaiyudh and was appointed deputy prime minister in Chuan Leekpai's cabinet in October of the same year.[8] Together with Chamlong Srimuang and transport minister Vichit Surapongchai he formed a team to tackle Bangkok's traffic problems.[9] However, he lost that position after a few weeks. Sukavich was appointed minister of education in Banharn Silpa-archa's cabinet in July 1995. In addition, he was the secretary-general of the NAP from 1995 to 1997. He was alleged to have contributed 100 million baht to the party's campaign fund.[8]

He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, representing Bangkok's 13th constituency. After New Aspiration's electoral victory, Sukavich again was a deputy prime minister in Chavalit Yongchaiyudh's cabinet in addition to his post as Minister of Education. Moreover, he served as Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) council president in 1996.[10] He was involved in a long-running scandal over the purchase of overpriced computers for schools,[8] but was cleared of any wrongdoing during a subsequent defamation suit.[11] Sukavich was also criticised for keeping in force a ban on "gender/sex deviant" and "wrong-gendered" (i.e. homosexual and transsexual) students at the Rajabhat teacher training institutes,[12] saying that "homosexuals are no different to drug addicts who need treatment. ... I do not want these people to be role models for children." He retired from the ministerial post in August 1997, being replaced by his intra-party rival Chingchai Mongcoltam, who lifted the anti-gay ban.[13] Sukavich also lost the deputy premiership in November 1997 when Chavalit was ousted by a no-confidence vote during the Asian financial crisis.

Education Reform 1995

[14]

  • In a paper presented at the Second UNESCO-ACEID International Conference in 1996 entitled New aspirations for education in Thailand. Towards educational excellence by the year 2007,His Excellency Mr. Sukavich Rangsitpol Minister of Education,Thailand (1995 -1997)laid out his plans for education in Thailand.

According to John Cogan (Professor of Education, University of Minnesota, USA) and Derricott, Ray (Director, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Liverpool) · 2014 in Citizenship for the 21st Century: An International Perspective on Education, he saw education as "the instrument for human development, creating peace for mankind and national security"

In 2001 Sukavich was re-elected as member of parliament, being number three of the New Aspiration Party list. Together with party leader Chavalit Yongchaiyudh and most of the NAP lawmakers, he switched to the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) of prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra later in the same year. In 2005, he was re-elected once again, this time a representative of the TRT party list. As one of 111 executive members of the TRT, he was banned from political activities for five years after the 2006 coup d'état. He expressed no wish to return to politics after the ban expired.[15]

References

  1. ^ https://info.rdi.ku.ac.th/ThailandResearch/?nameID=26235
  2. ^ http://medinfo2.psu.ac.th/pr/chest2012/file/CV/CV_Thitiporn.pdf
  3. ^ http://miu.isit.or.th/miu.ist.or.th/MIUx/News.aspx?id=2120
  4. ^ "Nattapol Rangsitpol: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  5. ^ "Sukavich Rangsitpol: Chairman and Managing Director, Caltex Oil (Thailand) Limited". Business Review. 21: 30. 1992.
  6. ^ "Proclamation on the appointment of a National Legislative Assembly" (PDF). Royal Thai Government Gazette. 108 (53): 13. 25 March 1991.
  7. ^ Paul Handley (1993). "Road to Nowhere: Thais and investors continue to haggle over highway". Far Eastern Economic Review. p. 152.
  8. ^ a b c Tom Wingfield (2002). Edmund Terence Gomez (ed.). Democratization and economic crisis in Thailand. Routledge. p. 269. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  9. ^ Economist Intelligence Unit, ed. (1994). Country Report: Thailand, Myanmar (Burma). p. 21.
  10. ^ "Visits of the SEAMEO Council President 1996". SEAMEO Library. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  11. ^ "All Quiet on Western Front". Bangkok Post. 28 February 2002.
  12. ^ Rosalind C. Morris (1997). Phillip Brian Harper (ed.). Educating Desire: Thailand, Transnationalism, Transgression. Duke University Press. pp. 53–79, at p. 54. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  13. ^ Peter A. Jackson (2002). Russell H. K. Heng (ed.). Offending Images: Gender Sexual Minorities, and State Control of the Media in Thailand. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 216–217. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  14. ^ Citizenship for the 21st Century: An International Perspective on Education. May 2014. ISBN 9781134730261.
  15. ^ "การกลับมาของบ้านเลขที่ 111 ไม่มีอะไรเปลี่ยนแปลงที่ "หลังฉาก"". Siam Intelligence. 5 June 2012.

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