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UK PhDs are held in high regard by Thai institutions. The problem you might face is that upper level Thai universities (Chula, Mahidol etc.) will tend to have lots of Thai academic staff with PhDs from reputable foreign institutions (including Ivy league and comparable places), and the low ranked places who struggle to find competent staff won't do much teaching in English.  This is from the perspective of 'traditional' academia, so you may have more options in the business school. One piece of advice I can give is that waiting for job openings to be posted, or contacting HR departments yourself, is probably a waste of time. If you want a job you'll really want to have an in with a staff member who can talk to the department head on your behalf. Or you can contact the department head directly yourself. If I were you I'd start looking up potential employers and seeing if there are any academics there you share a research interest with. Once you've done that you can send out a few feelers and take it from there. 

Thailand also got three gold medals at the recent international math olympiad. Actually the whole team did well, as they usually do. People who know about the IMO will know that getting gold medals, or even getting any points at all, is very hard, and the team should be proud, as should the physics team in this article.

The streets are safe for another day.

Classic moves from the authoritarian playbook. The elected politicians are crooks. The free media are liars. The people who disagree are enemies of the nation. We are the only ones you can trust.   

6 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

And failing quite badly. 

At least nobody died in this story so the writer isn't trying to work in a pun about someone getting decapitated or something.

1 hour ago, yellowboat said:

Pretty harsh for punishment for such a small error of judgment. 

I work for a big government university. According to this law I'm liable for up to 5 years when I teach a class at a satellite campus. Actually, the law is so vague about what constitutes 'work' that I'm probably technically liable every time I have a work related idea on the BTS. One thing I've learned after a few years here is that Thai administrators really love making rules that are too strict to actually enforce. It's like the people who make them live in a completely different country to the rest of us. But it happens at every level, from central government down.   

Terrorist attacks are horrible, but they're negligible as a risk. If you had a tally of daily deaths in the UK you wouldn't be able to pick out the days when an attack took place just from the numbers. Many more people died in the Grenfell fire than the cumulative total killed in attacks by Islamic extremists in the UK across all time. 

I wonder how the sentence he gets will compare to the sentences of various people committing the terrible crime of posting bad things about certain people on facebook? 

In Thailand they want to be successful, but they also don't want to change what they're doing, so they compromise by talking about how successful they're going to be when the plan that doesn't actually exist is complete. To be fair though, they don't just talk about it. They talk about it a lot. They also like holding ceremonies and such like to celebrate how successful they already are, to the point where it significantly interferes with doing the things they're supposed to be proud of doing. 

Thailand 4.0. Education. Creativity. Critical thinking. Progress. Now prostate yourself to the statue.

18 hours ago, tubby johnson said:

 

Nonsensical comparison.

 

Where are your imaginary farangs who commit several terrorist attacks in Thailand?

Sadly, though, there are plenty of muslims who commit terrorist atrocities with tedious regularity.

 

Plenty of Farang pedos come to Thailand though. Why don't their communities turn them in? They must know about it. They go to their Farang bars together. I bet they talk about it there. There's no such thing as a non-pedo Farang. Why don't they apologize for all the pedos that come here? Sick <deleted>. They should all have their dicks cut off. 

19 hours ago, hansnl said:

It are not only the IS members and supporters having a party, but I bet most of the Muslim world does.

IS is literally at war with half the Muslim world. The idea that the majority of Muslims want to see Western kids get murdered is just stupid. What IS want is to trigger backlash against Muslims in Western countries. When you attack all Muslims for things done by IS. you're not fighting against IS, you're doing their work. As far as I could calculate, Islamic terrorism has killed fewer than 50 people in the UK. 50. These deaths are all tragedies, but it's so far from being an existential threat to the country it's just pathetic. Twice as many people died at Hillsborough.  

Any death like this is a tragedy. RIP the victim.

However, I'm always amazed how Thai people go to get life advice from people whose 'office' is a plastic chair in the street. I mean come on.

Here's a thought experiment about 'peace'. What would happen if elections were held next week and PTP won? 'Peace' would end right? That's the whole argument for the military staying in power. But why would peace end? Because a bunch of people currently talking about how great peace is would start protesting...

5 minutes ago, halloween said:

Admit it, your conspiracy theory sucks. How do you secretly intimidate thousands of survey respondents and keep it a secret?

It's quite easy to construct a BS survey that gives you results you want. It's so easy to bias survey results that branches of science that use them have developed extensive systems to ensure they don't do it by accident. 

42 minutes ago, hansnl said:

PTP "wins" every time because of the slight boons they give to the poor to get their votes while using that power to enrich themselves by every means available.

The good thing about PTP wasn't that they were a particularly effective or clean government, because they certainly were not, but that they were on a fundamental level accountable to the people. A mechanism existed for a group offering a better deal to the population to take their place. People talk about PTP buying votes, but who else would the rural poor have voted for? The party whose core supporters feel the poor are too stupid to be allowed to vote?

The problem in Thailand is they don't even react after the event. It's all very well hand-wringing in the media, but until the law actually starts holding people accountable for their negligence nothing will change. And I don't just mean the workmen, but the organizations that allow work to be done with such sloppy safety systems in place. Don't hold your breath though.

2 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

Agree, and again I ask the question: 'Where is the National Police Chief?' Surely he should be making comments on these recent incidents to try to give some semblance of proper process and his personal professionalism and that of the force. Nothing!

Based on the form of the RTP, and Thai government in general, I imagine he'll step in at some point to deny that it happened. 

My wife is the kind of person they should be looking to employ. She has an MSc. from a good British university. She's not a super-brain but she's diligent and responsible. She gets stuff done. She works for Western companies and her bosses appreciate the good job she does. She doesn't want to work for the Thai government for three reasons. 1) It would cut her pay in half. 2) The career path is not based on merit. 3) She'd be mostly working with and for unreasonably self-satisfied idiots. 

Ironic that the 'PM' has been promoting Thailand 4.0 and the new vision for higher education this week.

These stories illustrate the problems with Thailand nicely. It's not that the rape happened, because rapes, sadly, happen everywhere. It's the fact that the guy had committed two rapes before and the taxi company didn't care to check. It's the fact that the taxi company are not held accountable for their lack of due diligence. It's the fact that the guy's eyes are blurred in the picture while the victim's details are spread around by the media. It's how much more seriously the authorities take the 'crime' of criticizing powerful people. It's sick really.

Well on the one hand some random people might have misremembered something. But on the other hand, despite the collective effort of tens of thousands of scientists over centuries, and after tests more intricate and thorough than the average person can even begin to comprehend, humanity might just be completely wrong about basic laws of physics. It's a difficult one.