CP All offers 6,600 scholarships

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Around 6,600 scholarships will be offered by two academic institutions established by CP All in the coming academic year.

Panyapiwat Techno Business School (PTBS), which offers vocational education, will grant 5,400 out of 6,600 scholarships to students for study at the first year of vocational certificate level in a retail business programme. The remaining 1,200 scholarships will go to those studying bachelor's degree programmes at Panyapiwat Institute of Management (PIM).

About 8,000 students have so far been awarded scholarships.

Piyawat Titasattavorakul, director and managing director of CP All, said it targeted an increase in the number of students in both institutions to 15,000 this year - increasing the number of vocational certificate students from 8,000 to 11,000, and of bachelor degree students from

3,000 to 4,000.

"With PIM's unique work-based learning on professional ethics, all 339 of the first batch of bachelor's and master's degree graduates who graduated last year have been employed already," he said, adding that they learned not only from books, but also by integrating their

knowledge with real working experience for more than four years.

In a move to extend more educational opportunities to students in remote areas, CP All would join hands with other private vocational schools to expand their bilateral network from 37 to more than 100 schools this year, providing work-based vocational education to students across the country. The students could study PTBS's curricula at the vocational schools nearby and then intern at CP All's 7-Eleven shops nearby, Piyawat added.

PTBS teaching is conducted through the satellite distance learning method.

Piyawat also invited other companies running businesses to join the network in a bid to provide different knowledge and working experience for students.

"If they are interested in collaborating with CP All, we're pleased to have our teachers train them on how to provide information about their businesses to the students," said Piyawat.

-- The Nation 2012-02-27

wow. intern at 7/11. cool.

wow. intern at 7/11. cool.

C'mon it's not too bad after completion you are entitled to print "Bachelor of Barcode" on your business card.