Talk:Triam Udom Suksa School
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[edit] Early History
The following is based on ML Pin Malakul's account of the School's early history, which was republished in the School's 70th anniversary book. Without more details on recent history, though, it seemed to be too long to place in the article yet.
The founding of Triam Udom Suksa School relates to the revised National Education Plan of BE 2479 (1936 CE), which imposed four and six years of primary and secondary education respectively, with an additional two years of precollegiate schooling required of students who were to continue to university level. This precollegiate level of education was to be initially provided by the students' prospective universities, and accordingly the University Council of Chulalongkorn University authorized the establishment of the school on 3 January 1938. The school took over the location of Mathayom Horwang School on Phaya Thai Road in the vicinity of the University, and became known as the "University Preparatory School, Chulalongkorn University", or Rong Rian Triam Udom Suksa Haeng Chulalongkorn Maha Witthayalai (Thai: โรงเรียนเตรียมอุดมศึกษาแห่งจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย; triam udom suksa translates as university-preparatory [school]). Mom Luang Pin Malakul was appointed as the first director, and the school opened on 16 May 1938; classes began on 19 May 1938. The school rapidly grew over the first few years, admitting up to 568 students in the 1940 academic year. In December 1941, however, the school became occupied by Japanese forces invading Thailand in the course of World War II, forcing the staff and students to relocate to temporary locations around Bangkok. Teaching quality was hence affected throughout the time of war. Teaching briefly returned to the school in 1943, but had to again leave after the school was damaged by Allied bombing in 19 January 1944. Part of the staff and students were transferred to various cities over the country, where preparations had already taken place for the establishment of additional preparatory school campuses. (Changes of government policy would however later cause these campuses to close down.) Teaching finally returned to normal in 1946 after Allied forces withdrew from the school. During that period, government policy favored expanding precollegiate-level teaching to public schools under the Department of General Education instead of being provided by the universities. As a result, authority over the school was transferred from Chulalongkorn University to the Department of General Education on 1 July 1947. The students have since been required to take university entrance examinations as regular students, and the name of the school was shortened to "Triam Udom Suksa School". The school, however, retained use of the Phra Kiao as its symbol. In June 1947, just prior to the transfer, a Teacher Training Department was created under the school to accommodate the expansion of the national school system. This department would expand teaching to Mathayom 1–6 levels, and was later transferred to the Higher Teacher Training School at Prasanmit. It presently exists as Patumwan Demonstration School, Srinakharinwirot University.
Paul_012 (talk) 20:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Assessment
I am assessing this as B / Mid. Overall, this is a good article. Plenty of content, an infobox, pictures, and some references. This article could eventually reach GA status with further work. The biggest issue with the article at the moment is references - it has enough for B class, but not enough for anything higher. In particular some sections such as Campus have no references at all, and with WP:BLP it is important the alumni section is well referenced. When adding more references try and add as much variety as possible, both primary and secondary sources can be used as necessary. The article contains pretty much all the sections a school article needs, but if it is possible to expand Curriculum all the better. Also, the introduction might need to be a bit longer for a long article such as this. The article contains plenty of pictures, but if more can be added in sections lower down the article, then that would be a good addition. I am giving this article Mid importance for the schools reputation and alumni. Camaron | Chris (talk) 14:54, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
