Representing your foreign Uni at Thai college fairs?

[bangmai]

My uni in Virginia is looking for alumni to represent the school at college fairs. They would like to increase international student enrollment. Has anyone been to these fairs in LOS, or better yet, represented their schools? Could there be work permit issues? Would you have to keep it a secret that your school hands out "Fs" like parking tickets? Could it be a good place to network?

[Mencken]

I think you are ok, think!

Recall reading somewhere it was permissible to attend trade shows.

If it's a good school and not VA Tech, lol yeah kids might have grade/performance issues.

I've never heard of such fairs here.

[SheungWan]

There should be no work permit issues. I used to attend the UK HE Fairs in Hong Kong years ago. Firstly, renting a stall can be expensive and then there are the logistics of shipping over college marketing materials and what to do with them afterwards. The institution organising the Fair should be able to advise. If you re representing a Uni without a well-known name then you can spend a lot of time sitting in your booth getting bored. If the uni office is organising things and you are just there to be a live graduate alumni then you don't have to worry about the above. You shouldn't expect to get paid, but you should expect expenses for while attending a Fair and also stay at the same hotel as the international office rep from the uni. If the Uni haven't considered any of the above and just want you to hand out fliers, well...............................

Edited January 13, 2016 by SheungWan