Kind regards and thanks to Ralph on his reply (postbox 15th Jan), but maybe he missed my mildly sarcastic comments. Let’s not fool ourselves when the government does not act as we expect. Its hardly something we can just pin on the Thai officials. However I do agree with his comments that almost everything appears to come before education, I have a Monday class I have seen for just 2 weeks out of the previous 7. Many have been cancelled, I say cancelled, because postponed would mean they were changed to another date and time. Thus the class is weeks behind.. The administrators feel that cultural events are a priority. With just a few weeks of term left, students will either get low grades or fail.

Actually, having a culture is a good thing, but to put it above everything else is short minded. You become an international laughing stock laughing stock.
Countries can’t close their doors to outside influences in this day and age.

Ian