LolaS

Thank you all for your comments.

* No, I am not from Texas or hold any extremist convictions, but it is convenient to pigeon-hole someone after reading a few lines, isn't it? LOL

I agree with you, I also don't accept certain bad cultural habits. However, there are far far far worst countries in the world.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/1022497/world-bank-keeps-thai-gdp-at-2-5-

can someone tell me if this is just another 2sponsored" content article, praising who is in power. or is it really true?

^^ Of course it would be "vocational training" if you consider those instructed for a DBA, DEng, MD, etc. taking up a vocation. I'm sorry to tell you, universities around the world, nowadays, have more than a faculty of theology or arts.

DBA. Right. Now, I know where you're coming from.

What do you mean?

DBA is usa system

Extensions for medical treatment can be obtained for any type of visa entry at immigration. The longest extension allowed is 90 days. One of the requirements to get the extension is a certification by a doctor and/or the hospital is that the applicant is unable to travel.

What type of visa a embassy or consulate will issue for medical treatment can depend upon where it is applied for. Some will only issue a tourist visa and others will do a non-o visa.

What is your visa or extension of stay status here? Getting her an extension as your dependent if she is 50 or over may be a better option if you are on an extension of stay.

dependant visa? isnt it under non O? So you are saying even with toursit visa she can extend 90 days?

Dear members, I am confused by information obtain from RAM hospital, since my mother is coming here, and she will spend her last day of her life with us, hospital that will provide treatment and inpatient care is also willing to prepare documents for appropriate visa type. problem is they dont know exactly which one is, is it Non O, non B, etc, Does anybody know here on forum, what should be appropriate type of visa ? one that is extendable at immigration office not at visa runs

Why refuse to name the hotel, is it a suspect?

defamation charges

raym5888 • 12 days ago

This is good advice, not only for Arts/Humanities PhDs. Most people have very little idea of how to get a job overseas or even think of it as a possibility. Australians are better off than Americans in that regard because going overseas as a PhD student or a post-doc is expected of you. From my 5 y experience as a post-doc in the US most Americans were too provincial to even understand why you would want to work overseas for a while. When I was a post-doc at Cornell one PhD student in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology was surprised that I spoke English quite fluently. In 2009 I won an Australian Government Endeavour Executive Award to go to Thailand and do some photosynthetic research with a colleague for 4 months. The Thais offered me a job without me asking. I told them I would think about it and went home. Back in Australia I was bullied for the last time by the dragon who had inherited my old bosses lab. I asked Prince Songkla University-Phuket if the offer was still open - yes it was. I took it and ran away to Thailand. I got tenure in 2 years. I am paid about 15% of what I would be paid for the same job in Australia but I have my own lab and they buy equipment for me and I have nice students and I publish papers in International journals. I am treated far better than I ever was in Australia, USA, Britain or Canada. I got my first real job in STEM at 57y and tenure at 59y and it was in Thailand not a western country. I am now 62y, my only complaint is I wish I had gone to SE Asia as a younger man. Note that I got my job by nomination: none of that Advertise-Apply-Shortlist-Interview-Appoint bullshit. In my career I applied for about 300 academic positions, well over 150 in the US. I got one rather miserable 3-year contract lectureship out of it in Australia and in the end I got job-described out of it becoming a tenured position.

ASEAN has a policy that all science subjects now have to be taught in English throughout SE Asia. The Thais have no interest in me learning Thai: that is not what they employ me for. Most of my Thai colleagues in the PSU science faculties have Australian PhDs with a few from the US, UK, Germany (PhD in English) and I know of one from Austria (PhD in English).

Go back to Australia? You would have to be joking.

excerpt: from chronicle http://chronicle.com/article/Why-New-Humanities-PhDs/2

raym5888 botrytisnightingale • 12 days ago

If you read my contribution you will learn that I am a tenured Assoc Prof in Thailand. I teach biology, mainly Plant Biology. I have been here for 5 years. I have no Thai wife or live in girlfriend and so I have not learnt any Thai. I use my knowledge of SE Asian history & Geography as a substitute. The university has no interest whatever in me learning Thai. It is ASEAN policy that all science courses have to be taught in English. The other two faculties on my campus are International Studies and Hospitality & Tourism - language of instruction is English. The quality of the English of course is another matter. They eagerly want me to publish papers with Thai colleagues and students in English. Few theses are written in Thai today. In a recent Masters class I taught I had one student from Bhuttan, one from Ghana, a Vietnamese, a Cambodian, an Indonesian and a sikh born in England. Total number of students 14. Some of the Thais came from the provinces and can barely understand metropolitan Thai. One and only one common language - English. The course topic - How to publish papers in international journals.

I have spent much of my life in research labs in Australia, Thailand, USA, Canada and Scotland. Typically 6 or more people in the lab. Usually I am the only native English speaker and often no two people share the same first language. I am a strict monolingual because foreign languages are virtually inaccessible to public school educated people in Australia. My parents were too poor to send me to a private highschool. In 40y of working in labs I have never come across a paper I needed translated.

Do not worry a stuff about languages. In SE Asia, at least, language is a non-issue.

You sometimes know only too well that the university keeps you as an exotic pet. There are special National Parks & Wildlife regulations in Thailand about keeping pet farangs - each faculty is allowed to have one pet farang who has tenure. .

LolaS

You don't seem too bright for someone working in an academic role. Do you really think a Western academic is going to travel to Thailand and work for a month as a visiting prof for 30000THB (£600 or $900) ?!! Use a bit of common sense.

Yes I think, 90% of them do it for minimal payment. Nobel winners speeches were paid 10 000 THB

I asked my peers, the prices and payment that

mention are not true. for sitting in qualification exam or thesis defence, maximum payment is 1600 THB.

Visiting professors don't get more than 30 000, depending on workload.

My institution is in TOP 3

^^ Lola, I was talking to you not the OP.

you are talking to general, oversimplification and generalization of subject

I really do think that someone with a science-based doctorate would be better off chasing a career in Hong Kong or Singapore rather than Thailand.

It is almost impossible, just top scientist with good CV can get tenure positions there. its like saying, you will be better off chasing a career in Harvard or Yale

Based on this logic, some universities in Hong Kong and Singapore must be of higher merits than Harvard or Yale.

I would invite the poster to consider other factors --beyond the merits of qualification-- that might be relevant to securing a position in East or Southeast Asia.

I think OP, doesn't have a clue how to find academic job, which means he or she is from low tier university. if you dont have recommendation and clear idea what to do, it is sad.

The reality is that in Thailand faculty appointments usually happen in two way:

• Internal candidate get sponsored by own institution to obtain a doctoral degree in North America or Western Europe (and sometimes Japan) and upon completion commences lectureship
• External candidate has recommendation and support from within applying institution.

Second fact, there is a severe shortage of faculty members with PhDs. Third fact, many international accreditation programmes that some Thai universities seek to obtain are expressively indifferent to country of origin (never mind a supposed "pecking order") of the research degree issuing institution.

Finally, even in the UK for example, where the prestigiousness of the university is rather important for taught degrees (especially at undergraduate level), the situation is much more complex for research degrees. What often matters here is not some lofty reputation of the university, but what strength in terms of research culture did the department have, who was the supervisor, and so on.

We will have to agree to disagree as far as the significance of the institution on one's CV as far as S.E. Asia is concerned. Be that as it may, I really do think that someone with a science-based doctorate would be better off chasing a career in Hong Kong or Singapore rather than Thailand.

have you seen a job market at that places? It is almost impossible, just top scientist with good CV can get tenure positions there. its like saying, you will be better off chasing a career in Harvard or Yale

You must originate from an Asian or Latin American country. In North America and Western Europe faculty appointments are utterly different to the above described.

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I am from EU

Nice! How does it work over there?

same as here

The reality is that in Thailand faculty appointments usually happen in two way:

• Internal candidate get sponsored by own institution to obtain a doctoral degree in North America or Western Europe (and sometimes Japan) and upon completion commences lectureship
• External candidate has recommendation and support from within applying institution.

Second fact, there is a severe shortage of faculty members with PhDs. Third fact, many international accreditation programmes that some Thai universities seek to obtain are expressively indifferent to country of origin (never mind a supposed "pecking order") of the research degree issuing institution.

I don't really understand why is that special only for Thailand. Except maybe that they NEED more PhDs, which is a contrast to other nations.

You must originate from an Asian or Latin American country. In North America and Western Europe faculty appointments are utterly different to the above described.

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I am from EU

Diversion. You're the one trying to sell people a bill of goods about the situation in Thailand.

12 times better than in West!!!!

I can't speak to the Philippines, but it's a total falsehood to suggest that being a ladyboy carries no negative stigmatizing connotations in Thailand. They are often rejected by their families. Transgender Thais are generally limited to a very few professions: entertainers, prostitutes, low level clerks, waitresses, and similar. Many turn to crime with the justification often being to pay for transition procedures. Yes, a tiny percentage of Thai transgender people are in higher levels of society, but those are exceptions that don't prove anything. The more successful ones generally come from more educated families that offer support that they can do anything they want, and not limited to the traditional Thai transgender professions.

To add -- just elected in the Philippines, boxer Manny Pacquiao now a SENATOR there, an infamously rabid homophobe.

you want to say that on West they are in better positions? Pleaseee... take a reality pill

^^ I think the OP has left the thread.

I doubt the 'status of the [foreign] academic institutions attended' would make a significant difference.

For a TEFL job probably not, but for a full-blown academic appointment, as significant as anywhere else.

The reality is that in Thailand faculty appointments usually happen in two way:

• Internal candidate get sponsored by own institution to obtain a doctoral degree in North America or Western Europe (and sometimes Japan) and upon completion commences lectureship
• External candidate has recommendation and support from within applying institution.

Second fact, there is a severe shortage of faculty members with PhDs. Third fact, many international accreditation programmes that some Thai universities seek to obtain are expressively indifferent to country of origin (never mind a supposed "pecking order") of the research degree issuing institution.

Finally, even in the UK for example, where the prestigiousness of the university is rather important for taught degrees (especially at undergraduate level), the situation is much more complex for research degrees. What often matters here is not some lofty reputation of the university, but what strength in terms of research culture did the department have, who was the supervisor, and so on.

I don't really understand why is that special only for Thailand. Except maybe that they NEED more PhDs, which is a contrast to other nations.

This is only surprising to Western people. There are a lot of "illegal" lifestyle choices throughout southeast Asia, none of which are actually enforced and all of which are in your face. Ladyboys are everywhere in the Philippines and throughout Thailand, Cambodia..etc. they are news anchors, models, actresses, singers, business owners, they ring you up in the registers, and nobody bats an eyelash or even cares.

I keep seeing this story pop up like it's some kind of victory in the midst of adversity, but being an open Ladyboy in Southeast Asia carries zero negative connotations and barely any societal backlash.

I just want to mention that Government of Thailand change requirement, and now everyone are required to have PhD ( maybe except part-time English lecturers)

I don't think the Office of Higher Eduction Commission's guidelines have changed. The requirement is to have have a relevant master degree.

However, in practice most research oriented universities will not offer faculty appointments to academics without a doctoral degree. Especially if they are participating in international accreditation schemes or try to pursue a research-based funding strategy.

It changed, new regulation. You need PhD to be a lecturer

Salaries in Thai universities are desperately low. No better than in schools. My suggestion would be to try for a job teaching in a Chinese university - China is currently opening several new universities each week and they are keen to hire foreign staff. Pay will be at least four times higher than in Thailand. Live in Thailand and commute to China. In four months of working in China you'll earn more than you would working for a year in Thailand and you'll have the time and money to travel in SE Asia. On top of this you may be able to secure a 'visiting professorship' at a Thai university. I do one month a year for a Thai university and they pay me 100 000 THB.

Not quite true.

Some universities in Thailand (not that many) pay a small monthly salary (15,0000, 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 Baht a month case by case) with some admin. / research etc., duties), which you can top up with teaching hours, but that depends on how many courses you get offered over a semester / year etc.

In some cases the employment contract might state that the uni offers small salary plus will offer you a minimum of 2 (just an example) courses per semester. I'm aware of such contracts where there is a small salary but no guarantee of teaching hours at all. In some cases the uni will allow the professor to work at other unis for teaching hours as long as the core salaried hours are not breached.

From my knowledge contacts with a guaranteed salary are for one year, but renewable case by case but up to the uni.

On the other hand some professors work on a total 'visiting professor' / freelance basis with nothing guaranteed, and often work across 2 or 3 unis.

Hours rates? How long is a piece of string? From my awareness if there is a base guaranteed salary then hourly teaching rates are often reduced by 10 - 20% (very case by case).

Pure freelance lecturing, from my knowledge and not researched:

- For lectures at bachelor level: around 800 to 1,800Baht per hour. (Professors usually needs a masters degree.)

- For masters level: around 2,200 to 2,600Baht per hour. (Professors usually needs a masters degree or Ph.D.)

- For Ph.D. lectures / coaching around 3,000 to 4,000Baht per hour (quite rare work lecturer needs Ph.D.)

- Masters committees usually around 2,00 to 3,500 per hour. (Not easy to get on these committees, professors usually needs a masters degree or Ph.D.)

- Doctoral dissertation committees around 3,500 to 4,500 per hours. (Not easy to get on these committees, needs a Ph.D.)

- For professors who get courses with say 3 full days week or perhaps 2 full days a week but 2 courses in tandem then 100,000Baht for a month is well possible but depends somewhat whether it's a bachelor masters class.

However remember that's not every month, it's very possible there will be a month, or more likely several months a year where the professor has no teaching at all. And no income during semester breaks.

Note: the high profile Thai unis are not necessarily the highest payers.

Corrections, additions welcome.

Yes, that is right, I just want to mention that Government of Thailand change requirement, and now everyone are required to have PhD ( maybe except part-time English lecturers) also only research-based position (postdoc) with lectures are at Faculty of Science CMU, 36 400 THB per month,

greeting all

well here is my report on the im office at prom . now my wife and i had to both go in for our 90 day. we had to file in person because we started our new extension in november ,tried to do it on line but no go . so we got there around 8 30 am. ha ha well nothing has changed much got in back of the line and yes there where a lot there so we didn't get our 90 day Q number. and i am glad i did not . so i went to the visa agent next door . lmao ok so at 9 am we gave all our paper work to them. asked how much 300 bah each so thats $17.11 usd for us both took him ten min to get the new 90 day day and we where done .

Now it seems to me that' s a pretty good idea. so by 9 30 am we where done and on our to the mall and shop, so i ask you is it worth it to go in at 5 am sit there till 8;00 am when they start giving out numbers .( i have done that as well )and i must say this is much easier and less stress full . and then sit and wait some more depending on number to be called some times afternoon or pay 300 bah . be done in 10 min.

So as i looked back as we where leaving and the office at im, and it was packed with people waiting, all of that to save a small 300 bah which is just under 2 caramel macchiato venti 's at starbucks . and some country's like russia you can only use visa agents. so all in all i am now sold on using the agent next door . To me makes no difference , the whys and hows of it ,they provide a service for a good price. cheaper than most others. for what ever the reason and how its set up i could care less/ i value my time just as much . so that's it .

OMG, me and my husband have the same problem, and it is weird they dont allow me to give passport in his name. Can you tell us what agenc is that if it is according to rules of this forum?

Salaries in Thai universities are desperately low. No better than in schools. My suggestion would be to try for a job teaching in a Chinese university - China is currently opening several new universities each week and they are keen to hire foreign staff. Pay will be at least four times higher than in Thailand. Live in Thailand and commute to China. In four months of working in China you'll earn more than you would working for a year in Thailand and you'll have the time and money to travel in SE Asia. On top of this you may be able to secure a 'visiting professorship' at a Thai university. I do one month a year for a Thai university and they pay me 100 000 THB.

absolutely not true!

well Chemistry is respected in Thailand, I can suggest you ( If it is allowed) biopolymer research group/cluster at CMU, http://www.science.cmu.ac.th/english/page-data.php?id=6

but I think starting salary for postdocs, are 36400 THB. without lectures, they have also international stuff

You should take a picture of the page showing your 7 year over stay. Interested to see it.

Thanks, and good luck, hope you find a job.

Why?

How about this one that is over 17 years that was recently sent to me.

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please hide passport number

Mahidol university and Chulalungor uni