Only one Thai uni in top 400

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Published: 4 Oct 2012 at 19.19
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Only one Thai university has made it into a list of the top 400 leading institutions of higher learning in the world.

King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) is placed in the 350-400 band in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2012-2013.

Mahidol University was ranked in the same band with KMUTT in the 2011-2012 influential education rankings report, but failed to retain its spot this year.

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samut
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Discussion 14 : 06 Oct 2012 at 12.5114
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Which “entire national budget” D13 the little left after everyone took his/her share? The conditions of Government schools are terrible and so is the learning standard; I know what I’m talking about as I’m involved in Rotary and Chamber of Commerce projects for rural schools and have seen it myself.
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Discussion 13 : 06 Oct 2012 at 06.3913
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dickemery 12 - "the lack of investment in education in thailand is small"
For the last decade, an average of 22% of the entire national budget was spent on education. Money isn't the problem.
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Discussion 12 : 05 Oct 2012 at 09.0812
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no surprise, the lack of investment in education in thailand is small,it seems they being the masters dont want the local thai to learn too much ,otherwise the game is up ?
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Discussion 11 : 05 Oct 2012 at 08.4511
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The elite don’t care about the standard of universities in Thailand, they send their kids to well-known oversea universities; good education available for the mass would probably jeopardize their superior status.
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Discussion 10 : 05 Oct 2012 at 07.4610
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Sadly, is anyone surprised by this story?
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Discussion 9 : 05 Oct 2012 at 06.289
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Salaries increased 29% however elete University of California Berkeley world ranking drops like a rock. Chancellor Birgeneau ($450,000) Provost Breslauer ($306,000) like to blame the politicians, since they stopped giving them their entitled funding. The Cal. ‘charge instate students higher tuition’ skyrocketed fees by an average 14% per year from 2006 to 2011 academic years. If they had allowed fees to rise at the same rate of inflation over past 10 years fees would still be in reach of middle income students. Breslauer Birgeneau increase disparities in higher education, defeat the promise of equality of opportunity, and create a less-educated work force.
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Discussion 8 : 05 Oct 2012 at 01.148
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One of the technology departments at KMUTT is run entirely by staff who have all received PhDs from a top US university.
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Discussion 7 : 05 Oct 2012 at 01.037
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Bummer! There goes Thailand’s plan to add “education hub” to its long list of hub fantasies. I would love to see a list of universities attended by all Thai ministers and politicians, the field of study and the world ranking of these universities. And in some cases the cost of the minimum required bachelor’s degree and how long the correspondence course took.
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Discussion 6 : 05 Oct 2012 at 00.546
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Having taught in a Thai unversity (not a "top" one i should perhaps add) i am surprised one makes the top 1000 let alone the the top 400. I agree with wikipedia that Thai graduates are the equivalent of 16 or 17 year olds (at a push) in the USA and Europe.

What Thailand should take note of from this survery is the number of high ranking "tech" colleges in the list and think accordingly. Tech colleges here are regarded as 2nd rate and that needs to change in the 21st century.

Perhaps more urgently review the role of thevRajabhat Universities who are so far down the pecking order they can barely justify the title of university at all. Sadly they produce over 70% of Thailands teachers; enough said i guess.
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Discussion 5 : 05 Oct 2012 at 00.485
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"Simple answer is that we won't!! Our young people will be disadvantaged from getting well paid jobs & Thailand will remain a country of rice farmers. Very sad!"

Nothing wrong with that. Take the Balinese, they are mostly rice farmers and they're happy with their lives.
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