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Parliament, Secretariat of the House of Representatives Distribute the 2024 budget draft to MPs. Start counting the framework for consideration within 105 days. The budget amount is 3.48 trillion baht. Must be completed within 8 Apr. Reporters reported that The Secretariat of the House of Representatives distributed the draft budget bill for fiscal year 2024 to members of the House of Representatives of all political parties. Acting Lt. Col. Apat Sukhanan, Deputy Secretary-General of the House of Representatives As Acting Secretary-General of the House of Representatives Revealed that the draft documents for the Budget Expenditure Act for fiscal year 2024 arrived at the House of Representatives on December 26th. The House of Representatives must complete the consideration within the 105 day frame as specified by Section 143 of the Constitution or must be completed within 8 April 2024. 'The President of the House of Representatives urged Prepare a meeting room. for agencies to provide information to the Cabinet for clarification And after the New Year's Day festival on January 3-5, 2024, there will be a meeting to consider and discuss the draft budget. Office of the Secretariat of the House of Representatives The meeting office will control the time. It must be as agreed by the four whips: the government gets 20 hours, the opposition gets 20 hours,' said Lt. Col. Arpat. Reporters report on the atmosphere of receiving documents today. MPs have sent a team to pick up draft documents to take back for consideration. Consists of 2 boxes of detailed books per person about the budget to prepare for the meeting to consider and discuss the draft budget. The draft budget will begin distributing from January 26, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. by the Secretariat of the House of Representatives. Only 425 sets were prepared because they had been made. The previous questionnaire said: Which MP would like a book? or electronic file format The documents can be received until the day of the discussion. For the draft budget for fiscal year 2024, the total amount is set at 3,480,000 million baht. The budget for fiscal year 2023 has a budget of 3,185,000 million baht, higher than 9.26% or 295,000 million baht. The central budget budget is set at 606,765. million baht. As for income in 2024, it is expected that various types of income will be collected in the amount of 3,337,400 million baht, but when deducting various tax refund reductions. There will be a net income of 2,787,000 million baht remaining and because expenses are higher than income of 693,000 million baht, it is expected that the government will borrow more money in that amount. The ministry that received the highest budget The top 5 hundreds of billions of baht include the Ministry of Interior with 353,127.5 million baht, the Ministry of Education with 328,384.7 million baht, the Ministry of Finance with 327,155.1 million baht, the Ministry of Defense with 198,320.4 million baht, and the Ministry of Transport with 183,635 million baht, while the top 5 ministries receiving the least budget allocation include: Ministry of Energy 2,834.6 million baht, Ministry of Industry 4,559.7 million baht, Ministry of Tourism and Sports 5,591.3 million baht, Ministry of Commerce 6,822 million baht and Ministry of Culture 7,016.7 million baht.

Source: Thai News Agency

SEOUL, Dozens of students filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking compensation from the government after the ending bell in last month's college entrance exam rang 1 1/2 minutes earlier than scheduled by mistake at a test site in Seoul.

The 39 students lodged the suit with the Seoul Central District Court, demanding 20 million won (US$15,296) per person in compensation from the state, according to the law firm Myungjin, representing the students.

At the test site set up at Seoul's Kyungdong High School, the bell notifying the end of the first Korean session during the Nov. 16 state-administered exam rang 90 seconds earlier than scheduled, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education.

The accident happened as the teacher in charge clicked the alarm earlier by mistake. Many schools manually sound the alarm during the annual College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) due to concerns of broadcasting system errors in the automatic system.

After realizing the mistake, the school gave the test papers back to the students during lunchtime and allowed them to solve problems and mark answers for 90 seconds but would not allow them to change already marked answers.

The students, however, claimed they could not fully engage in the test due to the incident, and the retesting took up half of their lunch time, which disadvantaged them in the following test sessions. Some reportedly gave up on the exam and returned home.

The law firm said education authorities have not offered any words of apology or explanations or taken measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again, even though more than a month has passed since the accident.

It also claimed the teacher in charge of ringing the bell used a private device instead of the state-designated clock.

In 2020, a similar incident happened at a test site at DeokWon Girl's High School in Seoul.

Test-takers and their parents filed a suit against the state and the Seoul city government, asking for compensation of 8 million won per student, after the bell rang three minutes earlier during the national college entrance exam.

Source: Yonhap News Agency

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology stated that so far, 112 thousand university students have participated in the Kampus Mengajar (Teaching Campus) program in more than 23 thousand target schools.Teaching Campus is a program initiated by the ministry that provides university students an opportunity to support teachers and school principals in carrying out learning activities in schools.

"They directly take part and collaborate with teachers, school principals, and even students' parents," the ministry's Director of Learning and Student Affairs Sri Suning Kusumawardani noted in a statement here on Friday.

ccording to Kusumawardani, the Teaching Campus program is an answer to the current challenge, namely the increasingly complex job market's demand for human resources.

The learning that university students will take part in while joining the program is considered to be able to hone various competencies, such as communication skills, cooperation, leadership, creative thinking, and problem solving.

Source: Antara News Agency

We realize that Indonesia must make a big leap Jakarta (ANTARA) - Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim has highlighted the need for a big leap to improve the quality of education in Indonesia and create competitive human resources."We realize that Indonesia must make a big leap. We want to improve the quality of education," he said at the Week of Indonesia-Netherlands Education and Research event here on Tuesday. One of the examples of the government's big leaps for improving the quality of education in Indonesia is the Kurikulum Merdeka (Freedom Curriculum) and Merdeka Belajar (Freedom in Learning) programs, he added. He explained that the KurikulumMerdeka program gives teachers the freedom to design quality learning that suits students' needs and environment. ccording to him, the program is meant to build learning that prioritizes student emancipation, blurs the boundaries between academia and industries, and increases cross-sector collaboration for creating innovative solutions. The minister further said that the MerdekaBelajar program has provided more than 760 thousand students the opportunity to study outside the campus, whether through internships with industries or other organizations or by becoming entrepreneurs. In addition, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology has also released a management platform for universities and industries to carry out joint research supported by matching funds. He informed that since the platform was launched in 2021, more than 2 thousand collaborative projects have been funded. Those projects have supported research priorities, such as green economy, blue economy, tourism, digital technology, health, and others. part from cross-sector collaborations, the ministry is also strengthening international collaboration and cooperation for improving the education sector through bilateral relations, including between Indonesia and the Netherlands. The effort has been realized through the Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA) program, which has provided 204 Indonesian students the opportunity to experience quality learning at 9 world-class universities in the Netherlands. The minister added that under the IISMA program, the education sector has moved in a really beneficial direction.

Source: Antara News Agency

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) Ministry is exploring cooperation with Russia in the education sector, including a joint education program under which students will study in both countries for half the study term."This kind of collaboration is very important to facilitate students studying at the world's best universities," said acting director general of higher education, research, and technology at the ministry, Nizam, in a statement released in Jakarta on Friday.

He visited Russia to explore the potential for collaboration and simultaneously monitored the implementation of the Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA) program at the Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

In addition to joint educational programs, one of the initiatives emphasized at the meeting was the creation of a new representative office for Russian universities in Indonesia's new capital.

"This will facilitate interaction between the two countries in terms of education and research," said Nizam.

Meanwhile, Russian Deputy Minister of Education, Andrey Omelchuk, also proposed developing workforce training programs and exchanging scientific experience as part of efforts to improve the quality of education.

"There is a new project known as Russian University and it has been proposed. In this project, students will get two degrees, study Russian, and have the opportunity to work in both countries," said Omelchuk.

Russia has also offered Indonesia the opportunity to join the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), which is among the world leaders in fundamental and applied research in various fields.

Moreover, the demand for Russian higher education in Indonesia is increasing. The Russian government has also increased the budget quota for Indonesian students at Russian universities to 300 for the 20232024 academic year.

Currently, there are around 500 Indonesian students studying in Russia, with 21 students from various universities in Indonesia getting the opportunity to attend lectures for one semester at Lomonosov Moscow State University (LMSU) under the IISMA Program.

Source: Antara News Agency

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Religious Affairs Ministry's Research and Development (RandD) and Education and Training Agency called on teachers, especially in madrasas, or Islamic education-based schools, to build students' awareness of caring for the environment."From an early age, students need to be accustomed to take on the role of protecting the environment," head of the agency, Amien Suyitno, remarked at the international webinar "Sharing Experience: Implementation of Project Based Learning" here on Monday. He said all citizens of the world, including Indonesia, are being impacted by the effects of climate change, ranging from pollution to global warming and the greenhouse effect and so on. ccording to Suyitno, teachers in madrasas can teach students about the environment and build awareness against climate change from the perspective of fiqh, or Islamic jurisprudence. He said teachings of religion not only pertain to human matters but are also about the balance between man and nature. Hence, he deemed it im portant for madrasa teachers to instill the values of love and care for the environment among their students. "From the start, our students must be familiarized with the common awareness of environmental sustainability, no matter how small it can be done. When the time comes, it will have a global impact," he remarked. The international webinar was held under collaboration with the Religious Affairs Ministry, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), and the Australian Government. He believes that this type of webinar is essential, as it trains teachers in developing projects, especially in implementing the Merdeka (Independent) Curriculum. He said the Merdeka Curriculum also covers education for caring for the environment. n advisor from the Inovasi Program, Robert Randall, said that it is important for teachers to comprehensively understand the project-based learning curriculum. He noted that if teachers can apply this in class, then s tudents will stand to gain much more from the curriculum.

Source: Antara News Agency

Denpasar (ANTARA) - As many as 100 students and teachers in 11 three-language schools in Bali and West Nusa Tenggara were awarded Mandarin language education scholarships on Tuesday by the Chinese Consulate General in Denpasar, Bali.nak Agung Bagus Suryawan, the Head of Special Education and Special Services Education at the Education, Youth, and Sports Department of Bali Province, stated that the scholarship program offers students in Bali an opportunity to enhance their Mandarin language skills. He also mentioned that the scholarship program supports efforts to increase cooperation in the fields of culture and education with China. erald, one of the scholarship recipients from Pelita Bangsa School in Denpasar, shared that the Mandarin education scholarship program motivated him to improve himself. Meanwhile, Steffany, an exemplary teacher who received a scholarship, expressed hope that in the future, she would be able to make a more significant contribution to organizing Mandarin education at her school. idy Furqan, the Head of Education and Culture of West Nusa Tenggara Province, welcomed the implementation of the Mandarin education scholarship program, which is expected to boost the competitiveness of human resources in the region. Chinese Consul General Zhu Xinglong stated that the scholarship programs are expected to help increase understanding of the Chinese language and culture, as well as strengthen China's relations with Indonesia. He also emphasized that the Chinese Consulate General encourages young Indonesians to learn the Mandarin language through the Kang Chingwie scholarship and cultural exchange program. Mandarin education scholarships are awarded annually, and 2023 marks the sixth year of the program's implementation. The scholarship has been granted to more than a thousand students and teachers.

Source: Antara News Agency

Bangkok 11 Aug – Royal Thai Police online alarm The call center gang tricked students into filming a video of themselves being detained. Demanding ransom from parents

The Royal Thai Police warns online call center gangs trick students into filming themselves to demand ransom from their parents. The criminals will use the phone call to their parents. and sent me a picture of my child in custody in which parents cannot contact their children Must transfer money to after transferring money Children can contact back.

Initially, parents expected it to be a ransom. But when the investigators It was found that it was a case where the child was threatened by a call center gang who was involved in an offence. And forced to take clips or photos and send them to the group of villains to demand ransom from their parents again By having to transfer money through your own children's account or into the horse's account and flee .-Thai News Agency

Source: Thai News Agency