<p>So the Thai education system&nbsp;has earned itself some international publicity of the exactly the kind the Ministry of Education doesn’t want.</p> <p>Thomas Fuller of the New York Times got insideNawaminthrachinuthit&nbsp;Triam&nbsp;Udomsewuksa&nbsp;Pattanakarn&nbsp;inPaknam&nbsp;to produce an article ‘In Thailand’s Schools, Vestiges of Military Rule’</p> <p></p>

<p>One of the things PM Yingluck Shinawatra has often been criticized for since she took office in August 2011 is her English. So much fuss was made about how she spoke English at <a href="http://asiancorrespondent.com/78647/69951/the-message-and-the-accent-the-first-meeting-of-hillary-clinton-and-yingluck-shinawatra/">her first meeting with Hillary Clinton</a> in November 2011 that the substance of that meeting got lost in the fight between her critics and defenders about the state of her English.</p>