Migrant kids’ schooling at risk

9 September 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Education and training / Human rights / Informal migration for labor / Labor / Local workers abroad / Offshore recruitment and employment / Social development / The poor
Human Rights Watch’s Asia division / Office of the Basic Education Commission / Phil Robertson / Thailand

A plan floated in Thailand to cut state educational support to migrant workers’ children has drawn the ire of rights groups, which say thousands of Cambodian youths could be denied their basic right to education.

According to Thai media, Kamol Rodklai, secretary-general of the Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC), has said that the number of foreign students in Thailand could increase to 250,000 within three years, leading the commission to reconsider the government’s policy of offering free education. …

 Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
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