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Pattaya Immigration chief explains the dangers of forged qualifications for teachers

Monday, 12 February 2007

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Pattaya’s immigration chief has spoken out about the number of cases of foreign teachers forging qualifications to obtain work in the Pattaya area, following a recent meeting arranged by the Pattaya Immigration office with representatives of over 30 international educational institutes and foreign language schools to explain the more stringent regulations now being implemented. In an interview with Pattaya Mail, Pol Col Ittipol Ittisarnronnachai, superintendent of Pattaya Immigration, said the issue was cause for real concern in Pattaya and the Eastern region. At the meeting in his office on Jomtien Soi 5, Pol Col Ittipol also introduced his new assistant, Pol Lt Col Wasan Kittikulavanit, who has long experience in immigration procedures and who has recently moved to Pattaya City to help push forward the pending visa issuance works. Our reporter asked the superintendent about the level of damage alien qualification certificates that have been forged have made to our country.

Pol Col Ittipol responded that they were not a major cause of damage in themselves, but undeniable harm is caused when teachers submitted forged documents to international schools because the students were the ones who would suffer through the inadequate educational skills that were being used to teach them. They might receive language skills, but the cores of the lessons would be neglected, as the teachers were not trained to deliver them. Additionally, the Immigration office has to know the true intention of those teachers and the reasons they came to Thailand, and if they have any hidden agenda to carry out in this country. Some have been found to be involved in child molestation.

Pattaya Mail asked how many aliens have been recorded as carrying forged documents, and were being investigated.

Pol Col Ittipol said that currently there are 63 cases of foreigners who have submitted falsified documents to the Office of Private Education Promotion. The Office had transferred these cases to the Immigration office to find out more about them. Recently two cases have been sent to court and two former teachers were sentenced to three months imprisonment. There are still 61 cases that are in the process of examination by the court.

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