5

Years

Current Achievements
& Future Perspectives
October 2010-2015

The Quality Learning Foundation (QLF)

QLFs Roles
in the Thai Education Reform

Background
In order to improve the efficiency of the national education reform, the Thai Government
issued the Office of the Prime Ministers Decree on the Promotion of the Learning Society
and Quality of Youth B.E.2553, establishing the Quality Learning Foundation (QLF).
Its mandate is to mobilize both education and non-education sectors for the creation
and expansion of the learning society so that life-long learning conscience could be well
implanted in the Thai society and the quality and well-being of the citizens could be
achieved.

Organization
The components of QLF Executive Board responsible for policy issues are:
Prime Minister Chairperson
Minister of Education First Vice-Chairperson
An distinguished expert designated by the Prime Minister Second ViceChairperson
7 ex officio members: Permanent Secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister, Permanent
Secretary of Finance, Permanent Secretary of Social Development and Human Security,
Permanent Secretary of Education, Secretary-General of the National Education Council,
Director of the National Budget Bureau, and the Managing Director of Thai Health
Promotion Foundation

 9 distinguished members designated by the Prime Minister: Prof. Sompong Chitradab,

Mr. Prakit Limsakul, Mrs. Suwannee Kamman, Assoc. Prof. Narong Chaihan, Mr. Yongyuth
Wongpiromsant, Prof. Praket WateeSatokkit, Ms. Walairat Sri-aroon, and Mr.Issara
Wongkusolkij
Member & Managing Director appointed by the Prime Minister, Mr. Supakorn Buasai.

Strategic Goals

To mobilize the participation from all parts of the society to support the education reform
processes and the promotion of quality learning in the society, QLF has 4 goals:
Closing the gap. By reducing the inequality of the opportunity to quality learning
and attempting to achieve the universal equal opportunity for all, with the emphasis on
the disadvantaged group that now accounts for over 40% of the 6-17 age group
population.
Opening the gateway to quality learning. By enhancing the innovation or the expansion
of quality learning process which is the key to quality education system as well as drawing
from the successful experience from the Quality Education Fund in Hong Kong.
Exploring new networks and mechanisms. By inviting the non-education sector,
including provincial, local administration organizations and other public and private
organizations all over the country to support the education reform on various projects and
activities and sharing the ownership and responsibility for this multi-stakeholder
partnership.
Developing Systems Research for Education Reform and Public Policy. By mobilizing
the research collaboration between international and domestic partners for the necessary
system-knowledge for the education reform and quality learning society as well as
improving the capacity, effectiveness and efficiency of the education system and
personnel.

5 Years of QLF
Development
and Utilization
of Innovations
in Teaching
and Learning

Highlight: Teachers were given opportunity to take new initiatives

in improving their own teaching and students learning for better quality
by themselves. This initiation took into account the suitability to
the environment and interest of the learners, readiness of the schools
and compatibility to the community.
Example: QLF provided direct funding support for over 2,000 projects
which were implemented by the elementary, secondary and vocational
education institutions all over the country.

Improvement
of the capacities
of teachers
to mobilize
the learning
reform

Highlight: The project identified and supported good teachers who had
consistently played significant role in developing successful students
and potentially would serve as the catalyst of the education and learning
society reform by using the participation of non-educators, who have
witnessed the achievements of good teachers, serving as the good
teachers selection committee.

Development
of the
prototype
for learning
reform

Highlight: QLF helped put the effort in solving the problems of the
disadvantaged kids in each province with its own initiation:
Developed the Case Management Unit (CMU) to look after individual
kids
Developed the prototype of Area-Based Education Reform
in 10 provinces

Helper
supporting
government
education
policy

Green: work
currently undertaken

Example: Nearly 20,000 Kru Sondee (Good Teachers) were selected

by provincial and local committees in all over 7,000 municipalities in all
77 provinces. Then the Fellowship projects for good teachers was set
up to support the selected 529 Good Teachers who had been voluntarily
working on the projects to improve learning for the disadvantaged group
according to their skills and interest.

Example:
Project to reform funding support for over 1.6 million poor kids in the
formal education system to ease the problems of learning opportunity
inequality and the drop outs.
Project to improve information system to guarantee the learning
opportunity of the country.
Project to reform the learning system to prepare the youths for future
career.
Developed the National Education Account together with UNESCO
and the Office of National Education Council.

Achievements
(2010-2015)

2,000 innovation projects in 2,580 schools were conducted

350,000 kids including 250,000 disadvantaged benefited from the projects
Better learning results of the target groups -- their 2011 O-NET score increased
significantly from 2010

18,870 Good Teachers (Kru Sondee) were selected

Over 108,000 disadvantaged and ordinary kids participated in various types of
learning activities under the Good Teacher Fellowship Project
Over 150,000 representatives of all local sectors served as the committee to select
Kru Sondee in their respective areas
The network of some 30,000 people, who played important part in building learning
capabilities for kids, continuously participated in the teachers quality improvement
activities

The CMU by multi-disciplinary volunteer teams in the pilot areas took care of 50,000
disadvantaged kids according to each individual requirements
The provinces participating in developing their own education reform prototype with
the cooperation of all parties in the area were successful in developing the prototype
and mechanism for education reform with multiplying effect such as the establishment
of provincial education council
Improved the efficiency in providing the unit cost funding support for 1.6 million poor
children and follow up activities so that those children could complete their
compulsory education with quality and get jobs
Mae Hong Son Model was modified to the National System of Learning Opportunity
Security to prevent the drop outs and guarantee the 12-year education opportunity
for all children especially the disadvantaged group within 5-10 years
10 provinces were the pilot in curriculum development based on the result of local
labor market research results for sustainable working opportunity
Supported the Ministry of Education and the Budget Bureau in using the National
Education Account data in developing the education budget plan to reduce
the inequality of education opportunity

5 Years of QLF

Developing
Systems
Research

Highlight: QLF has supported both technical and action research

programs that aim to promote the research collaboration between
the domestic partners and international organizations such as UNESCO,
World Bank and OECD on critical leverage areas of education reform to
deliver necessary knowledge and public policy proposals for
Thai education reform processes. As stated in the World Bank report on
Thailand (2015), QLF has a potential to serve as the academic mechanism
for the reform similar to the Health System Research Institution.
Example:
Developed the Thailands first National Education Account (NEA),
one of the first NEA systems in the world, to improve the efficiency of
the education reform and education budget planning that also helps
reduce the equity and inclusive resource allocation in Thai education
system. QLF is currently supporting the UNESCO-UISs development of
the first NEA international standard with other 10 pioneering countries
around the world.
Developed the school information management system (SIMS) to help
school employ the evidence-based approach to improve school
effectiveness and efficiency in administrate teaching and students equal
opportunity to quality learning throughout 12th years of basic education.
Currently, over 500 schools in 10 provinces have been using this
system.
Developed the longitudinal database system for 60 pre-school children
development centers in collaboration with the University of
Thai Chamber of Commerce with the special advised by Professor
James Heckman, Nobel Prize laureate in economics. This system can
help systematically improve the capacity of the similar centers
which locate in over 7,000 municipalities across the country to improve
the school readiness of pre-school children that will eventually improve
their future learning capacity in school.

Development
of Learning
Reform
Network

Green: work
currently undertaken

Main issue: Mobilized the reform by high potential workers leading to

the change of learning in children.
Example
Organized forums to discuss Learning Reform Leading to Education
for All by presenting the best practices so that they could be extended
to other areas
Selected teachers to receive the 2015 Princess Maha Chakri Award
Supported the networks to improve the standard of teachers like
Kru Sondee network.

Achievements
(2010-2015)

QLF participates in the OECDs international research program on assessing progress

in creativity and critical thinking with other 15 countries around the world to develop
the developing tool and measures for these critical learning skills in the 21st century
and over 1,000 students and teachers in Thailand will participate with this program
between 2015-2016.
QLF developed the universal learning opportunity information system to promote
the multi-stakeholder collaboration to help the municipality achieve the universal
education opportunity or zero-dropout municipality. The main target for this system is
the disadvantaged children group, who are poor, handicapped or live in the remote
areas. Some 2 million disadvantaged children would be able to benefit from this
system in the future.
It was found that half of the youths in the high school age group were drop outs.
As a result, the curriculum reform was jointly undertaken by QLF and the primary
curriculum and textbook reform committee.

Top prototype of vocational teacher were selected by the committees in 77 provinces

to receive Princess Maha Chakri Award on October 2, 2015 together with another
10 from other countries
Concept and model presented at the reform stage could be further experimented in
raising the education standard in Phuket, Petchaburi, Kampangpetch, etc.
Management unit was set up to promote teacher development in the well prepared
areas

QLF
Future Vision
To move forward as the organization responsible for quality learning enhancement, galvanize
the learning society, and supporting the efficient education reform, the QLF has prepared the
future strategies and operation plans as follows:
The QLF Committee has endorsed the policy for QLF to become the Quality Learning
Institution (public organization) with the following three missions:
1. Develop the system knowledge to support the education reform and education public
policy.
2. Develop mechanisms to enable the whole society to jointly drive the education reform
and learning capabilities.
3. Encourage and prepare the local organizations and non-education sector to play more
active roles in quality education reform by themselves.
QLF strategies focusing on linking its work with the government policy on education and
learning reform have 5 main issues and respective implementation plans as follows:

Strategic Issues

1. Public policy for education reform

2. Develop mechanism to promote
education reform networks
3. Provide opportunities for teachers
to participate in the education
reform
4. Reduce the inequality in education
opportunity
5. Advocate the life-long learning
values

Implementation Programs

1. System research program to support education

reform
2. Network promotion program to help enabling the
society to participate in the education reform
3. The program to support the development of
teaching and learning innovations
4. The program to support the reduction of education
inequality especially in the disadvantaged areas
5. Public knowledge management program

During the past 5 years QLF and our partners has been working with strong commitment to
introduce the Thai society to the new era of the 21st century world of learning along with
the international communities. The QLF as one of the education reform mechanisms is ready
to move forward to enable Thailand to progress strongly onwards with the following mission:

QLF is the leading organization in developing the knowledge

and mobilize collaboration for education and learning reform