Teachers TV to launch in Thailand

4th February 2010

Teachers TV, the digital channel and website for those in education, has signed its first international partnership to launch a Teachers TV service, in Thailand. 

The Thai partnership will see Teachers TV offering consultancy and training to the new Thai channel, as well as selling in hundreds of its programmes which will be shown with Thai subtitles. The pilot channel is scheduled to start transmitting in April with a full channel and website launch in the autumn.

In January, the Teachers TV team at Education Digital and the Teachers TV Project team at the DCSF met with Mr Chaiwuiti Bunnawat, the Thai Deputy Education Minister to discuss the development of the new channel.

The development of the channel in Thailand was first brought to government level by Mr Sumate Yamnon, Secretary General, Office of the Higher Education Commission and Permanent Secretary in charge of teacher training and professional development in Thailand, who was able to raise funds through a government stimulus package.