Phuket Schools Information

As Phuket has grown more cosmopolitan, education has kept pace. Below is a list of schools, universities and colleges now operating on the island:

British Curriculum International School, Formerly Dulwich International College, the British Curriculum International School offers a British education from Kindergarten to Year 13. Pupils can choose from a variety of subjects at IGCSE level and the higher level International Baccalaureate. B.C.I.S. is located in a beautifully landscaped and accessible campus right in the centre of Phuket Island.

Greenhouse International Pre-school An international pre-school for Children ages 1 to 6 years. Learning through play with parent participation encouraged.

QSI International School of Phuket (Nursery to Grade 12). A private international school which follows an American curriculum.

Prince of Songkhla University, Phuket campus offers a courses with special emphasis on tourism, including a four-year English-curriculum degree course in hotel management.

Rajabhat University, which, also provides courses for the training of "coastal guides" specializing in natural history and also tour guides.

Phuket Vocational College - provision mainly for Thai nationals.

A growing number of private language schools which specialise in ESL and English for the hospitality industry.

Education in Thailand

Education in Thailand is free and compulsory for all Thai children between the ages of 7 and 14, and about 90 percent of the children are enrolled in either public primary schools or those operated by Buddhist monasteries. Only 33 percent of all eligible children attend secondary schools.

Children are officially required to receive six years of education, and the government has announced its intention to increase that number to nine years. The literacy rate is 93 percent, higher than that of most other countries of Southeast Asia.