Gang-fighting campus to send first-year students elsewhere

Thailand’s minister for higher education said on Tuesday 6 February that despite the threat posed by gang rivalries with other schools, first-year students can still enrol at the Uthenthawai campus of Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok, write Gary Boyle and Onnucha Hutasingh for the Bangkok Post.

However, they must study at other campuses until the violent rivalry with Pathumwan Institute of Technology (PIT) has been resolved, Supamas Isarabhakdi said.

The minister said efforts were being made to end the years-long dispute between the two Bangkok-based institutes of higher learning that has caused multiple deaths and even more injuries over many years. Most recently, two PIT students were attacked last Friday in front of their campus. One of them died from his stab injuries. In November, a first-year student from Uthenthawai campus was shot and died in Klong Toey district.
Full report on the Bangkok Post site