They're a common sight everywhere you go in Thailand: young women in white blouses and black skirts or young men in white dress shirts and black dress pants, sometimes with belt buckles (in the case of the girls only held by a few binder clips) or pins sporting their university logos.
Thailand is one of the very few countries left in the world -- next to neighboring Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam -- that requires students to wear uniforms even at university level. While the wearing of uniforms is mandatory at every academic institution in the country, how strict the rules are enforced varies from place to place and is mostly up to the teaching personnel.
And every now and then there is some controversy about the outfits students are wearing, mostly about their interpretation. For example back in 2009, the directors of the nation's top tier universities Chulalongkorn and Thammasat in Bangkok complained about female students wearing uniforms that are "too sexy" and "inappropriate" – although a publicly announced clampdown by both universities fell flat. Then in 2011, a similar short-lived uproar by education officials took place after a Japanese news website poll listed Thailand's student uniforms as "the sexiest in the world."
The controversy has been stirred again by a transgender female liberal arts student at Thammasat University nicknamed Aum Neko, who plastered posters across notice boards in early September at Thammasat University's Rangsit campus on the northern outskirts of Bangkok. Full story...
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Thailand is one of the very few countries left in the world -- next to neighboring Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam -- that requires students to wear uniforms even at university level. While the wearing of uniforms is mandatory at every academic institution in the country, how strict the rules are enforced varies from place to place and is mostly up to the teaching personnel.
And every now and then there is some controversy about the outfits students are wearing, mostly about their interpretation. For example back in 2009, the directors of the nation's top tier universities Chulalongkorn and Thammasat in Bangkok complained about female students wearing uniforms that are "too sexy" and "inappropriate" – although a publicly announced clampdown by both universities fell flat. Then in 2011, a similar short-lived uproar by education officials took place after a Japanese news website poll listed Thailand's student uniforms as "the sexiest in the world."
The controversy has been stirred again by a transgender female liberal arts student at Thammasat University nicknamed Aum Neko, who plastered posters across notice boards in early September at Thammasat University's Rangsit campus on the northern outskirts of Bangkok. Full story...
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