Thread: Thai Substandard degree students call in police

Yes the most important thing is the curriculum.

That part always looks bloody marvelous as do the recommended texts.
After that it all falls to pieces.

Could do that for every school in Thailand.

One of my students showed me what she had to do for her business studies third year final exams.

Memorise a business dialogue around 2 pages long.

FFS.

Looks like the college forgot to pay the tea money.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Could do that for every school in Thailand.

do not forget the U K , U S A and most of Europe in your statement

Originally Posted by donmeurett

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Could do that for every school in Thailand.

do not forget the U K , U S A and most of Europe in your statement

Why?

Thai Unis are complete rubbish. British, American & European Unis lead the world. Have any facts to dispute that?

No, I didn't think so.

My experience of a Thai university was farcical to say the least. I accept that this does not mean all universities are the same although I am convinced my situation was not unique.

I proposed that they handed out the degrees upon clearance of the cheque at the commencement of their course rather than go through the charade of trying to teach them something for three or four years
It would have saved a lot of hassle and the final outcome would have been no different.
I had final year students in content courses of an international programme where the language of study was English who could not tell me or write down their name such was their level of English.
Yet of course they received their degrees.
I was constantly asked to make my exams tougher . Yet I thought that they were already amongst the toughest on the programme as i did not always use multiple choice and never allowed my students to create their own exam paper.
Multiple choice ensured that at least there would be work to mark as it is hard to hand out A's when there is no body of work to mark. Essay style questions often resulted in blank exam books. Where something was written in many cases it was unitelligible
Those same external examiners would after asking me to toughen the exam paper would also ask me to raise all the grades of the students.
It would have been so easy to have failed most of them on merit but that would have been allowed..

It is a shame it does a disservice to the students and ultimately to Thailand. Thais are not basically less capable then others. If not asked to work why would a youngster. However upon entering the job market their lack of appropriate skills becomes obvious and unless they have the family support network will struggle