Educational Fairness: a Case of Student Loan Fund of Vocational Education in Northeastern Thailand
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Jul 17, 2020
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Educational Fairness/ Student Loan Fund/ Vocational Education
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This research aimed to analyse policy implementation of student loan with principle of justice of John Rawls (2001). The authors applied grounded theories within the study design. Qualitative research was adopted by using in-depth interview with 10 borrowers from 5 groups of vocational education in Northeastern Thailand. The content analysis was used to assess the results.
This study found that: 1) The collecting debt system of student loan fund uses force methods, such as having a fixed repayment period, having strongly punishment, and deferred pay criteria just only disabled case, those are incompatible with the principle of equal rights of John Rawls. The only except interest rates 1% of student loan was not violated concept of fairness of Rawls. 2) The recruitment criteria of student loan fund have inconsistent with the principle of equal opportunity. In contrast, those criteria focused on the principle of benefit of least advantage of John Rawls.
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Beattie, C. (1982). “Rawls and the Distribution of Education”. Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation,7(3): 39-50.
BLT Bangkok. (2562). “Revealed more than 1.1 million debtors of civil service prosecutors aiming to deduct the salary of state-private workers by another three hundred thousand people”. [Online]. Retrieved August 9, 2019, from https://www.bltbangkok.com/article/info/8/1046. (in Thai)
Bøyum, S. (2014). “Fairness in education – a normative analysis of OECD policy documents”. Journal of Education Policy, 29(6): 856-870.
Brighouse, H. (2004). Justice. Cambridge: policy press.
Charoenkul, N. (2005). Equity in higher education. UK: University of Newcastle.
Gorard, S. et al. (2010). Equity in education; an international comparison of pupil perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Jantori, P. (2012). “Dual System Study – The Solution of the Thai Labor Crisis”. Journal of Business administration 35(135) : 29-39. (in Thai).
Mahacharoen, S. (2015). “Analysis of Student loan with interest rates on the back side of the business combination”. Journal of Management science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University 2 (1): 127-138. (in Thai)
Office of the Education Council, Ministry of Education. (2014). A report of Analysis of the results of the Thailand student loan for the accessibility and quality of education: a case study of Khon Kaen. Bangkok: Phrik Wan Krap Fik. (in Thai)
Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security. (2015). “Report on poverty, income and Household expenditures”. [Online] Retrieved March 4, 2017, from https://www.m-society.go.th/article_attach/15481/18817.pdf. (in Thai)
Patmasiriwat, D. (2009). “Educational Finance: Return to Higher Education and Educational loan Programs”. Economics and Public Policy Journal 5(5): 7-33. (in Thai)
Patmasiriwat, D. (2016). Economic inequality in Thailand. National Research Council of Thailand. (Unpublished Manuscript). (in Thai)
Phalipho, S., & Samakkhitham, S. (2011). Debt Problem of Student Loan Fund: A Case Study of Be in Arrears Person. [Online]. retrieved November 20, 2016 from http://mis.krirk.ac.th/librarytext/MPA/2554/No/Suprapol_Parlipho_2554.pdf. (in Thai)
Phuangprayong, K. (2011). The Evaluation of student loan fund: A case study of Vocational education institutions in Samutsongkhram Province. Master of Arts Thesis program in Social Development Administration NIDA. (in Thai).
Rawls, J. (1999). A Theory of Justice revised edition. Cambridge: Belknap press of Harvard University press.
Rawls, J. (2001). Justice as Fairness A restatement, edited by Erin Kelley. Cambridge: Belknap press of Harvard University press.
Schleicher, A. (2014). Equity, Excellence and Inclusiveness in Education Policy Lessons from Around the World, OECD.
Smith, E. (2010). Key Issues in education and Social Justice. London: SAGE Publication.
Strauss, A. and Corbin, J. (1998). Basics of Qualitative Research Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. 2nd ed. London: Sage Publications.
Yamyindee, P., Amdonkroy, S., & Jaicharad, N. (2013). “A Study on the Causes at Risk of Vocational Student dropouts of Bungphra Phitsanulok Commercial College, Office of Vocational Education Commission”. Journal of Graduate Studies in Northern Rajabhat Universities, 3(5): 1-14. (in Thai)
Zhang, H., Chan, P. W. K., & Boyle, C. (2014). OPENING PANDORA’S BOX Exploring Inequalities In Education in Equality in Education: Fairness and Inclusion edited by Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan and Christopher Boyle. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.