When I took over the education portfolio in mid-1995 I brought with me my skills as a professional manager developed over a 35 year career with a multinational oil company,
an awareness that the output of our educational system no longer matched the needs of employers in our rapidly industrializing economy and a strong determination to devote the rest of my productive life to public service.
Over the last 21 months I have travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometers, visited hundreds of schools and talked to millions of students teachers and school administrators.
This has been the only way for me to build an accurate picture of what the priorities in any educational reform program should be since, like most public agencies, the Ministry of Education is not very good at monitoring or evaluating its own performance.
The most urgently identified need was money, Traditionally about 85 percent of the Ministry of Education ’s budget is spent on fixed costs, mostly salaries. Little has been left for capital investment In Facilities, equipment, and training, let alone to subsidize those students too poor to afford our supposedly free schooling and free meals.
By enforcing a new budget building discipline within the MOE and by working closely with the budget Budget Bureau and the NESDB, I have been able to forge a new alliance and commitment at the highest levels of government to fund education at the necessary levels consistent with our reform objectives.
In 1995 the MOE’s budget was just over Baht 100 billion, In 1996 it was lifted to Baht 133 billion,.
In 1997 it is 163 billion Baht and for 1998 our goal is 200 billion Baht. In only four years Thailand will have doubled its national education budget.
At the same time the majority of this increase will go to increased capital investment and subsidies to the poorest 60 percent of our children.
This portion of the Ministry’s budget increased to 18 percent in 1996, to 27 percent in 1997 and will reach 38 percent by 1998.
The impact of this funding commitment is now being felt throughout the system, particularly in the previously disadvantaged rural areas where the 60 percent of our poorest students live.
Every school is now undergoing urgent physical repairs and enhancements.
https://www.scribd.com/document/711034653/1995-Sukavich-Rangsitpol-s-Thailand-Education-Revolution 
My Father Sukavich Rangsitpol’s 1995 Education Revolution
an awareness that the output of our educational system no longer matched the needs of employers in our rapidly industrializing economy and a strong determination to devote the rest of my productive life to public service.
Over the last 21 months I have travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometers, visited hundreds of schools and talked to millions of students teachers and school administrators.
This has been the only way for me to build an accurate picture of what the priorities in any educational reform program should be since, like most public agencies, the Ministry of Education is not very good at monitoring or evaluating its own performance.
The most urgently identified need was money, Traditionally about 85 percent of the Ministry of Education ’s budget is spent on fixed costs, mostly salaries. Little has been left for capital investment In Facilities, equipment, and training, let alone to subsidize those students too poor to afford our supposedly free schooling and free meals.
By enforcing a new budget building discipline within the MOE and by working closely with the budget Budget Bureau and the NESDB, I have been able to forge a new alliance and commitment at the highest levels of government to fund education at the necessary levels consistent with our reform objectives.
In 1995 the MOE’s budget was just over Baht 100 billion, In 1996 it was lifted to Baht 133 billion,.
In 1997 it is 163 billion Baht and for 1998 our goal is 200 billion Baht. In only four years Thailand will have doubled its national education budget.
At the same time the majority of this increase will go to increased capital investment and subsidies to the poorest 60 percent of our children.
This portion of the Ministry’s budget increased to 18 percent in 1996, to 27 percent in 1997 and will reach 38 percent by 1998.
The impact of this funding commitment is now being felt throughout the system, particularly in the previously disadvantaged rural areas where the 60 percent of our poorest students live.
Every school is now undergoing urgent physical repairs and enhancements.
https://www.scribd.com/document/711034653/1995-Sukavich-Rangsitpol-s-Thailand-Education-Revolution