Thai Education Shortcomings Fuel Crisis

Nattaphol Teepsuwan: conflict of interest at the Education Ministry

By: Pavin Chachavalpongpun

Thai politics is in crisis along with the country’s education sector, which is headed by a hyper-royalist who appears to have won the job by being an implacable foe of the Pheu Thai regime that was supplanted by an army coup in 2014.

He is Nataphol Teepsuwan, the Minister of Education, who with his wife Taya in 2013 participated…