Govt wants universities, organisations to develop specific courses to produce skilled workers

By The Nation

 

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak

 

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Suvit Maesincee, Office of National Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Policy Council (ONES) director Kittipong Promwong, Thai Board of Investment (BOI) officials and several universities on Monday discussed developing a concrete policy to produce manpower to meet the skilled needs of companies.

 

Somkid said universities needed to be aware of this and evaluate whether students and the syllabus corresponded to the demands of the market, while the private sector and the BOI also had to take part in developing human resources with academic institutions. He tasked the Council of University Presidents of Thailand to coordinate with universities.

 

It was necessary for the government to be fully knowledgeable about the country’s demands and how it can support the plan to produce manpower and drive the nation's development according to the five-year Manpower Planning initiative, Somkid added.

 

ONES director Kittipong said the government couldn’t wait for students who graduate later since it could be too late amid rapidly changing technology, while skills learned in universities were not enough to meet companies’ demands.

 

So the ministry has launched a policy to develop “non-graduates” who can later upskill or reskill. This policy aims to create 100,000 high-quality personnel for regions both inside and outside the Eastern Economic Corridor, S-curve industries, and Boston Consulting Group model industries.

 

ONES is in the process of making a list of required skills needed for the future and after that academic institutions or organisations can register with the RTO (Registered Training Org) by designing courses for required academic fields to support companies, which can assign their personnel to take registered courses.

 

Companies that require personnel with knowledge in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) field can inform the ministry of their requirements and won’t need to pay corporate tax 2.5 times the training budget and 1.5 times the wages of personnel with STEM knowledge.

 

The development of “non-degree” personnel is expected to correspond with the ONES sandbox model allowing the public to join training sessions, receive certificates and accumulate credits to obtain degrees. However, the plan is still in the formulation stage, Kittipong said.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30377855

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2019-10-29

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A skilled government would be a good start. 

Does not a hammer maketh Somchai a carpenter? A screwdriver make Daeng an electrician?

What's changed?

19 minutes ago, HiSoLowSoNoSo said:

A skilled government would be a good start. 

Took the words right out of my mouth. Decent, honest and properly trained parliamentarians are in desperate shortage. Army generals are not trained for and perform poorly at tasks they have no idea about, such as listening and sharing opinions. 

35 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Suvit Maesincee, Office of National Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Policy Council (ONES) director Kittipong Promwong, Thai Board of Investment (BOI) officials

and glowing titles do not necessarily improve their performance.

More worker ants required....

The foreign worker ants are more skilled and taking the honey back to feed their own Queen !!

And who is going to teach them the required skills when there is nobody capable of doing so ?

Ah, early Xmas present I see. Thanks for the chuckle.

How about teaching them to drive first?

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

How about teaching them to drive first?

Or think beyond their next meal

... 

doesn't matter how many Masters Degrees etc they pump out... what comes out the end are all simply wet-behind-the-ears kids

 

 

get rid of their pitiful excuse for Universities, and install proper Vocational Colleges

I am very concerned if Thai students have enough funds for higher education. Many young students drop out of school at 15.

 

7 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

So the ministry has launched a policy to develop “non-graduates” who can later upskill or reskill.

As an example , churning out mining engineers who have no where to go for employment, 

these men and women need to have options of credit due for their studies done, no doubt there are others, I just know of this group, a disillusioned mind set they have after graduation sadly,

"ONES director Kittipong said the government couldn’t wait for students who graduate later since it could be too late amid rapidly changing technology, while skills learned in universities were not enough to meet companies’ demands."

The boat was missed a long time ago.....the "don't teach the children too much" theory, is now a shining example of how not to educate people!

Well turning out 10,000 engineers and 10,000 dentists every year isn't a good idea for job placement? Oh I know, better they all become soldiers.

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Suvit Maesincee, Office of National Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Policy Council (ONES) director Kittipong Promwong, Thai Board of Investment (BOI) officials and several universities on Monday discussed developing a concrete policy to produce manpower to meet the skilled needs of companies.

Only took about 70 years to come to the realisation that the rest of the world is passing them by, and they need to do something about producing workers out of Universities that can actually do a days work instead of saying "I have a masters certificate" which opens many doors but means sod-all when they're asked to do something!

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Govt wants universities, organisations to develop specific courses to produce skilled workers

That's what they want; what they get are Thaiwatsadu workers; clueless and lazy.

Sometimes I think Thailand is 50 years behind maybe more

16 hours ago, Lungstib said:

Took the words right out of my mouth. Decent, honest and properly trained parliamentarians are in desperate shortage. Army generals are not trained for and perform poorly at tasks they have no idea about, such as listening and sharing opinions. 

and glowing titles do not necessarily improve their performance.

But it sure improves their take home pay and other fringe and tax free benefits.

9 hours ago, leeneeds said:

 

As an example , churning out mining engineers who have no where to go for employment, 

these men and women need to have options of credit due for their studies done, no doubt there are others, I just know of this group, a disillusioned mind set they have after graduation sadly,

They could train rocket scientists in lieu of mining engineers - but unfortunately similar outcome. 

 

Universities should be reduced by at least 75% with the facilities and  budgets used for useful training of vocational students (real training to a high level of understanding) 

I seem to recall the Japanese, when looking into investment opportunities in the EEC, concluded there was a shortfall of 30,000 skilled workers. 

So now the Thai government suddenly just realise there is a problem in getting the EEC off the ground and go into a panic to try and educate new skilled workers; something they should have been doing years ago.

But you can't expect too much creative and forward planning from the military wallies now governing the country. Replenishing the trough and taking care of the rich and elite occupies much of their time.

All my time here, you see people with degrees in English but unable to maker understandable sentences. Just because they get a degree ,or even a mvocational certificate FDOES NNOT MEAN they can do the job or have any knowledge, with the exception of possible Doctors or Dentists the rest are walking around clueless and useless, which it appears also inclues the Government 

They may have a shortage of skilled workers but the Thailand is slowly becoming the world hub of acronyms!

A day late and a dollar short.

On 10/29/2019 at 5:20 PM, PatOngo said:

Does not a hammer maketh Somchai a carpenter? A screwdriver make Daeng an electrician?

What's changed?

The Thai Government want Universities to teach these skills.

What will the Vocational Colleges teach? 

Origami maybe or maybe Knitting.

 

The people that have the skills to teach already have good paying jobs elsewhere, plus there are few with these skills because they originate from the same sick system-we see the same article every week-no foreigners thanks

This information would have been useful yesterday.

 

Churning our graduated means very little in this country.

 

They still require years of training and experience to be even somewhat useful to run basic errands. 

 

Western educated graduates are much, much better, and come with the built in understanding of the West. Maybe a little more expensive, but Thai graduates are like Year 9 students in normal education systems.