EDUCATION

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The project has two main features: the expansion and improvement of facilities at 14 trades and industries schools and 10 agricultural schools and the expansion and improvement of two institutions for training technical and agricultural instructors. A limited program of diploma level training is included in the project to produce each year some 110 agricultural technicians from four of the agricultural schools and 25 teachers from the Bang Pra Teacher Training College. At the same time, a higher agricultural education program is being established in the universities. In-service teacher training programs are also to be established at Bang Pra to raise the level of instruction in the agricultural schools. The importance of these schools to agriculture will also be increased by the establishment of advisory committees to coordinate their teaching with extension and the other services of the Ministry of Agriculture.