Suvarnabhumi Airport limo bellhop arrested over 'bomb in box' joke

[scorecard]

I push hard, mostly by demanding progress details, otherwise there would nothing handed in.

An example, just 4 days back I set up an in-class quick case study (they all have high end smartphones with internet capability or high tech notebooks) to produce an update on the re-engineering of Thai International.

First response: 'Why'. My answer: 'Because they are in serious financial trouble, close to bankruptcy and their re-engineering project is failing, and you can learn a lot of valuable professional knowledge by a deep analysis of this item.' Next response: 'It's a boring subject.'

My response: no further discussion, I'm changing the grading structure, this case study will now be worth 20 marks, and it must be handed in by e-mail today by the end of this class and I quickly re-arranged the teams down to 2 students per team.

Next response - 'our Thai professors don't give us cases like this'

My response: 'Hand-in today before you leave the class room. No further discussion.'

and? Was anything handed in? Did your Thai Boss complain about your methods?

Yes, the MBA student teams did hand in their work.

This course is long-term business strategies to achieve: revenue, margin, growth, competitive advantage, and very long-term continuity / sustainability of the business, identifying long-term risk factors (with a lot of focus on the typical danger items which come with business maturity). The Thai Inter. case fits perfectly.

Twelve teams of 2 students:

- 6 teams got a B

- 3 teams got a B-

- 2 teams got a C

- 1 team got F

The director of the graduate school is a Thai Ph.D. holder, studied abroad long-term in the UK, got his Ph.D. in the UK, my approach is what he expects. The other foreign professors take the same approach and the director pushes the Thai lecturers to do the same, most of the Thai lecturers follow the same approach (most are educated abroad), one doesn't and relies on multiple choice exams with obvious answers. If there are exchange students in the class (often quite a few) then the last professor I mentioned doesn't teach.

Repeat from above: '1 team got F'. I knew this would happen, they are both extremely lazy (in fact other teams refuse to work with them), they just sit and play with their smartphones, go backwards and forwards to the canteen and to 7/11 etc. And after every course they go to the lecturer and ask 'what can I do now to get a pass or get an A?' In reality nothing, but they never realize they need to get serious, grow up, etc. They don't want to grow up.

One of them has an extremely low GPA (most courses C-, D, and F). She has complained to the director several times, she wants to get an MBA but she wants a special course whereby there are no case studies (she thinks case studies are silly and not necessary) and the exams are all obvious multiple choice. This will never happen of course.

She's already sent a request to the director to do more multiple choice comprehensive exams rather than submit a thesis, which was not approved (no chance ever of this being accepted and the student knows that). This ultimately means she will not get an MBA. She still attends courses hoping something magic will happen and so she can be together with her friends.

The same girl has already submitted an application to be accepted as a Ph.D. candidate, which goes to a committee of the director and 3 professors who are Ph.D. holders and have taught the student (if the student is from the same university. The meeting lasted 5 minutes, with an immediate NO from every committee member.

Let me go back to my first post. When I announced the case study and the requirement to analyze multiple newspaper and other news sources I asked the whole class:

Who read at least one newspaper:

- Yesterday - none.

- Last week - none.

Who never reads newspapers: About 90% of the students indicated they never read newspapers.

Who watches the news on TV:

- Most said never.

- A few said it's sometimes on the TV at their parents home but they don't listen.

This is the future of Thailand.

[biplanebluey]

I do wish you people would get the facts right, a bellhop is employed by a hotel he is in fact a hall porter employed by the hotel to carry luggage to peoples rooms they call them bellhops in America hall porters in the uk.

Wow---- thanks mate for clearing that one up-------- I've learned something today