The Australian Ambassador to Thailand and Australian Defence Attaché to Thailand commemorated the 75th anniversary of the completion of the Thai-Burma Railway in 1943
Source: Australian Embassy Bangkok Facebook On Wednesday 17 October, the Australian Ambassador to Thailand Paul Robilliard and Australian Defence Attaché to Thailand Captain Chris Smith attended a service at Hellfire Pass in Kanchanaburi commemorating the 75th anniversary of the completion of the Thai-Burma Railway in 1943. Representatives from Thailand, the Netherlands, the UK and the […]
Your support is needed! Campaign to save international Australians from draconian CGT amendment continues
Dear AustCham Thailand Members, Please see above the prominent coverage (page one and lead story online) in the Australian Financial Review today highlighting the punishing impact of the proposed Capital Gains Tax on the family home of those living and working offshore. If these changes affect you, AustCham Thailand encourages you to write to the […]
Chamber Business News: October 2018
25 October – Meeting with Minister of Education, H.E. Mr. Teerakiat Jareonsettasin regarding the development of Vocational Education and Training for Thailand. 15 October – Joint Business Luncheon with Minister of Digital Economy & Society On Wednesday 17 October, AustCham Thailand, in collaboration with partner chambers, held AustCham Joint Business Luncheon on “Update on the […]
A Shifting Model of Professional Development
By Sara Berenguer, Assistant Head of Primary at Regents International School, Pattaya Professional development in education for many years was organized around a received wisdom model of training – that of the teacher as a ‘cook’ following a recipe. Although teachers continued to be required to produce certificates of courses or workshop attendance as evidence of their professional […]
It’s not the same as an overseas holiday
By Gregory Joseph Cairnduff, Director, The Australian International School, Bangkok Families in Transition from One Country to Another. Choosing a School for your child For families newly arrived in a new country, choosing a school for their child is one of the most important decisions they will make in their transition period. How can parents judge the […]
Learning and Re-learning, Beyond the Classroom
By Dr. Ian Fenwick, Interim Deputy Director (External), at Sasin School of Management (Bangkok) Lifelong learning is one of those things (like climate change), that inspires a lot more talk than action. Yet, also like climate change, it has a certain inevitability, and looms large over the future of education. There are three major forces at work […]
Growing up among worlds, how schools support TCK’s
By Kirsten Durward , the PYP Co-ordinator at KIS International School ‘Third Culture Kid’ (TCK), and ‘Global Nomad’ are terms increasingly heard in our International Education world as we attempt to describe and understand some of the students we care for. Thailand being a country which attracts both long and short term expatriates, we have a wide […]
Education and Leadership Development
By Jake Varley, Elementary Principal at Berkeley International School As educational leaders, we face great challenges. Sir Ken Robinson observes that ‘the more complex the world becomes, the more creative we need to be to meet its challenges’. For this reason, it is critical to instead look at these challenges as opportunities. Educators today stand before students with […]
The Energy and Persistence of Multilingualism
By Ondine Ullman, Primary Leader of Language Acquisition, Bangkok Patana School At our international school here in Bangkok, we have the privilege of a gloriously diverse linguistic landscape, with over 60 nationalities within our community speaking an even larger number of languages. For many of these children, using multiple languages is the norm, and for all […]
Professional Development is Now Online
By Rob Kawada, Managing Director, English Gang Thailand If you love your job, professional development is awesome. If you hate your job, well, there isn’t much that will make you change your mind about that! The cool thing about professional development as we enter into 2019, is that a lot of it can be done online now. […]
