University insiders' perceptions of doctoral education development in five East and Southeast Asian countries: An institutional logics perspective [Scholarly Article - European Journal of Education, 2022]

Title:

University insiders' perceptions of doctoral education development in five East and Southeast Asian countries: An institutional logics perspective

 

Authors:

Tengteng Zhuang, Baocun Liu & Ruichang Ding

 

Publication:

European Journal of Education, 27 June 2022

https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12516

 

Abstract:

This article reports on a study that analysed multiple logics behind the development of doctoral education in China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand. The analysis focused on the development over the past two decades and general measures to ensure quality. Research materials analysed in this article consisted of semi-structured interviews with insiders in the doctoral education system in each of the five countries. The findings reveal that the growth of the doctoral education sector in China follows state logic, profession logic and corporation logic. Doctoral education in Japan shows state logic, profession logic and market logic. State logic, market logic and corporation logic are manifested in South Korea's doctoral education sector, whereas state logic and profession logic are prominent in Singapore. Doctoral education in Thailand mostly follows state logic and market logic. Establishing and completing the external and internal quality mechanisms, tightening quality inspection procedures and raising requirements for students are common measures put in place for quality assurance throughout East and Southeast Asia.

Narratives of ‘stuckness’ among North–South academic migrants in Thailand: interrogating normative logics and global power asymmetries of transnational academic migration [Scholarly Article - Higher Education, 11 January 2021]

Title:

Narratives of ‘stuckness’ among North–South academic migrants in Thailand: interrogating normative logics and global power asymmetries of transnational academic migration 

 

Authors:

James Burford, Mary Eppolite, Ganon Koompraphant & Thornchanok Uerpairojkit  

Published:

Higher Education, 11 January 2021

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00672-6

Abstract:

Higher education (HE) researchers have become increasingly interested in transnational academic mobility as a field of inquiry. A phenomenon frequently associated with ‘progress’ and ‘development’, research accounts are written about academic migrants who harness career momentum and experience upward social mobility resulting from their travels. In contrast to scholarly accounts which link mobility with progress of many kinds, this article foregrounds under-considered accounts of migrant academics who describe themselves as moving ‘backwards’ and feeling ‘stuck’. Drawing on an empirical study with 25 migrant academics employed in Thailand, we investigate ‘stuckness’ via two narratives of Global North academics. These narrative portraits reveal how migration may be prompted by career immobilities and that migrant academics in Thailand may perceive that they lack opportunities for career progression. We also examine how Thailand is configured as a ‘weird’ mobility destination, one that may struggle for recognition as a site for international academic career progress. The key contribution we make to critical academic mobilities scholarship is to weave in decolonial analyses of the geopolitics of knowledge production, examining ‘South’ and ‘stuckness’ as potentially linked categories for North-to-South academic migrants. We argue that narratives of stuckness among Northern academic migrants in Thailand are deeply interwoven with assumptions made about desirable directions of global travel, assumptions which are born from the profound inequalities which characterise global HE’s core/periphery structure.

Knowledge Management Practices among the Internal Quality Assurance Network (IQAN)-Member Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Thailand

Title: 

Knowledge Management Practices among the Internal Quality Assurance Network (IQAN)-Member Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Thailand

Authors:

Esther Funmilayo Zinzou & Teresita Rubang Doctor

Published:

World Journal of Education, Volume 10, Number 5 (2020)

http://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/wje/article/view/19288

Abstract:

Knowledge management is one of the essential processes in every organization because knowledge is recently considered an important asset that needs to be managed. However, in Thailand, it was observed that in many organizations more importantly the academe, knowledge management processed are not yet at fully implemented and employees are not really fully aware of the KM processes in their workplace. This research reviewed the status of knowledge management (KM) in the IQAN- member college and universities in Thailand based on the interpretation of the practice of their rank and file staff. This study was able to find out the majority of the staff know about KM and view it as essential and strategic part of their institutions. They consider their HEIs as knowledge –based. Furthermore, most of the staff believe that KM in the HEIs are still in introductory, intermediate and some consider that KM is their institution is its growth stage and rated differently their institutes’ KM practice from adequate, good to very good. The staff also affirmed that there is knowledge creation, storage, sharing and transfer via various modes. However, in the preference of use of technology tools, the rank and file staff least prefer the usage of the technology in KM management and prefer the use of communities of practice in the sharing of knowledge. It is therefore, strongly recommended that there should be continuous and cyclic process in KM wherein review of the different stages will be done regularly to update the staff especially in the use of technology because it is a very important tool in knowledge storage and sharing or communicating knowledge.

The student daring to challenge Thailand’s monarchy

Title:
The student daring to challenge Thailand’s monarchy

Published:
BBC News, 17 September 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54182002

From the article:
"There was fear lurking inside me, deep fear of the consequences," says Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul.

In August, the 21-year-old nervously stepped onto a stage in Thailand and delivered an open challenge to the monarchy.

To the cheering of thousands of students of one of Thailand's top universities, she read out a now-famous 10-point manifesto, calling for reform of the monarchy.

Scholarly Article (2020) - The Development of Learning Module of Educational Administration and Educational Institute for Students in Master of Education Degree in Thailand

Title:
The Development of Learning Module of Educational Administration and Educational Institute for Students in Master of Education Degree in Thailand

Authors:
Chalard Chantarasombat & Wichian Rooyuenyong  

Published:
World Journal of Education, Volume 10, Number 3 (2020)
http://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/wje/article/view/17661

Abstract:
The knowledge creation for the efficiency, quality, and the effectiveness, learning achievement and through learning module the developed learning of Educational Administration and Educational Institute for students. However, knowledge creation also be used to learning module of school-based supervision for students? This paper describes the application of basic knowledge creation on module of “Educational Administration and Educational Institute for students,” in master of Education degree in Thailand. Changing demographics are the threatening the ability of degree students studying master degree program in educational administration, Northeastern University, to sustain their viability as traditional methods of passing knowledge creation from generation to next are circumvented by the movement of young. Knowledge creation as a way developed learning module of school-based supervision for students were: 1) the efficiency of action process in developing Learning Module was 84.61, the efficiency of knowledge was 83.00 which was higher than the specified criterion 80/80, 2) the quality of the developed Learning Module evaluated by the experts, in overall, was at “The Highest” level. Considering each aspect, the level of propriety, congruency, feasibility, and utility aspects, was also at “The Highest” level, 3) the effectiveness index in learning management of students learning through Learning Module was 0.6569 out of full score of 1.00 or the students had an increased knowledge of 65.69%, 4) as for learning achievement of students learning through Learning Module at the post-test scores were significantly higher than the pretest at .05, 5) regarding students learning through Learning Module there were no significant differences between post-test learning achievement and the 2 weeks post-test learning achievement scores. It was indicated that the students learning through Learning Module of “Educational Administration and Educational Institute for students”, attained learning retention, and 6) the students had their satisfaction on learning through Learning Module in overall, at “The Highest” level.

International Business Times, 24 May 2020 - Thailand conducts Covid-19 vaccine trials on monkeys after positive trials in mice

Title:
Thailand conducts Covid-19 vaccine trials on monkeys after positive trials in mice

By:
Reuters

Published:
International Business Times, 24 May 2020
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/thailand-conducts-covid-19-vaccine-trials-monkeys-after-positive-trials-mice-820685

From the article:
* "The Thai vaccine is being developed by the National Vaccine Institute, the Department of Medical Science and Chulalongkorn University's vaccine research centre."
* "Thailand on Saturday, May 23, began testing a vaccine against the coronavirus on monkeys after positive trials in mice, an official said."

Business Insider article (14 April 2020) - The first case of someone dying after catching COVID-19 from a dead body was a forensic worker in Thailand, scientists say

Title:
The first case of someone dying after catching COVID-19 from a dead body was a forensic worker in Thailand, scientists say

Author:
Bill Bostock

Published:
Busienss Insider, 14 April 2020

From the article:
"Scientists in Thailand said they identified the first instance of somebody dying from COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, after catching it from a dead body."

To read this article:
https://www.businessinsider.com/first-death-coronavirus-healthcare-caught-from-dead-body-thailand-2020-4?IR=T

To see the original Letter to the Editor of the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, volume 72 (2020), titled COVID-19 in forensic medicine unit personnel: observation from Thailand:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1752928X20300718

THAILAND - Thailand scrambles to contain major outbreak of horse-killing virus

Title:
Thailand scrambles to contain major outbreak of horse-killing virus

Author:
Christa Lesté-Lasserre

Published:
Science, 16 April 2020

From the article:
"Thailand, already battling the spread of coronavirus, is now contending with another deadly viral outbreak—in horses. With hundreds of horse deaths reported there in the last 3 weeks, horse owners are rushing to seal their animals indoors with netting, away from biting midges that spread the virus for African horse sickness (AHS). Some scientists suspect that zebras, imported from Africa, led to the outbreak."

To read this article:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/thailand-scrambles-contain-major-outbreak-horse-killing-virus