My grandchild (3 years old) is attending a childcare in a suburb. We get a report of child activity during the period. The report is a check list and a remark. This I see as a way to assure parents of the quality of care and learning environment. In a way, the environment is monitored and reviewed for each child by the carers.

Enabling educational environments should incorporate (though very mundane and error-prone) aspects monitoring and reviewing ‘record’ so that assessments can be more ‘rigorously’ conducted and results compared for ‘big picture’ standard and/or development of environments.

The monitoring and reviewing protocols are lacking in most Thailand’s systems, leading to assessments by ‘experts’ (or by trust) rather than by detailed data. It is perhaps one of the shortcomings in culture and in improving performance of the systems. Postmortem auditing is both difficult and time+resources consuming due to lack of data (due to lack of monitoring and reviewing record) and likely to be too late to be of use in repairing the systems.

Let us call for national archive open policy and law (freedom of information?)- so that public administration records can be accessed publicly and timely.