Akkaranan announced his volunteer commitment to ease teachers' burdens, declaring an end to the era of overloaded teachers. At a high-level ministry meeting, he promoted a model to merge projects and reduce redundancies, aiming to restore teaching time to educators. He indicated a detailed announcement would come next Monday.
On 14 May 2026 at 10:00, during the second high-level meeting of the Ministry of Education executives, Deputy Education Minister Akkaranan Kanngittinan was assigned by the Education Minister to chair discussions with the ministry’s policy and planning units. The goal was to review school-based project activities systematically to reduce teachers' workload.
Akkaranan said the main issue he wants to address early in his tenure is reducing teachers’ workload. He volunteered to personally oversee this matter following the Education Minister’s directive. Feedback gathered from teachers in the field showed many feel overwhelmed by paperwork from overlapping projects and want more time to focus on teaching rather than completing evaluation documents.
Going forward, he will urgently review all projects from every unit to consolidate those with similar objectives under a “single evaluation covering multiple projects” model. For socially sensitive projects, careful communication plans will be developed to ensure smooth implementation and broad acceptance. Regarding the White School project, which many teachers have raised concerns about through various channels, stakeholders have been consulted. Although the project cannot be canceled within the 2026 budget, it will be addressed and revised in the 2027 budget. Akkaranan emphasized valuing all teachers’ voices and expressed a sincere commitment to achieving practical results rather than policies existing only on paper. The ministry will send a clear signal to schools that it will no longer operate as before; redundant projects will be canceled, and where possible, integrated to reduce paperwork burdens, restore happiness, and give teachers real time back to care for students in classrooms.
Regarding the launch of the “Rights and Freedoms Protection Center,” the ministry is prepared to serve as a protective umbrella, safeguarding the rights, freedoms, safety, and well-being of both students and teachers in all aspects. Orders have been given to all units to accelerate integrated, systematic collaboration, with a directive to finalize all coordination by 19 May 2026.