Academic collaboration with Germany blossoming

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Academic collaboration with Germany blossoming

BANGKOK: GERMAN Ambassador Peter Prugel has handed out this year's German Academic Exchange Service scholarships.

Twenty-five scholarships were granted to students and professionals from Southeast Asian countries for masters or PhD studies for tropical medicine at the Seameo Tropmed Network and for a master's degree programme in a broad range of engineering fields and natural sciences at the Asian Institute of Technology.

In his speech at a ceremony held at his Bangkok residence, Prugel said that academic cooperation between Germany and Thailand had developed significantly.

Official university collaboration between the two countries reached a record 186 instances with great exchanges on all academic levels and fields, he said.

Prugel said that those who had won scholarships and German alumni belonged to a "family of academics related to Germany".

He encouraged this year's scholarship crop to stay in contact with one another and their respective universities and to register at the DAAD Information Centre in Bangkok to benefit from future academic offers.

DAAD is one of the world's largest organisations for academic cooperation and also awards grants to teachers, researchers and scientists in all fields of study. Besides fostering direct academic exchanges with Germany, DAAD also grants scholarships to students in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Academic-collaboration-with-Germany-blossoming-30274374.html

-- The Nation 2015-12-05

[ratcatcher]

"Twenty-five scholarships were granted to students and professionals from Southeast Asian countries...."

How many Thais received scholarships out of the 25?

[tuanku]

I imagine it is a fairly one-way exchange

[Lupatria]

Alcoholism and tranquilizer abuse among German lecturers will increase accordingly.

[sawadee1947]

"Twenty-five scholarships were granted to students and professionals from Southeast Asian countries...."

How many Thais received scholarships out of the 25?

and how many Germans study in Thailand supported by German Government?

[SamMunich]

It is pretty much a one-way exchange, though there have been German lecturers working at the likes of Chula and Thammasat.

Alcoholism and the need for tranquilizers for foreign lecturers in Thai universities is nothing new. How would you feel, if you must assign passing grades to the biggest nutcases, just because their families sponsors the university big-time...?

Germans getting support for studying in Thailand? Yeah, fat chance...

The biggest problems in all of these exchange programs are the difference in knowledge, the ability to adapt to life in a foreign country and the missing motivation, when you have been pushed to take part in the program. Some are simply not really interested but are still sent abroad. Dunno why. And too bad, you can't just buy your grades in western universities.

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"Twenty-five scholarships were granted to students and professionals from Southeast Asian countries...."

How many Thais received scholarships out of the 25?

and how many Germans study in Thailand supported by German Government?

Quite a few actually, and several Thai universities have formal exchange agreements with a number of well recognized universities from several of the main cities in Germany. One Thai university I'm associated with has a Thai professor currently on a visiting professor exchange with one of the German unis.

[h90]

25 only from all SEA for study but how many hundred thousand uneducated migrants they let in?

Germany be ashamed!

[sawadee1947]

"Twenty-five scholarships were granted to students and professionals from Southeast Asian countries...."

How many Thais received scholarships out of the 25?

and how many Germans study in Thailand supported by German Government?

Quite a few actually, and several Thai universities have formal exchange agreements with a number of well recognized universities from several of the main cities in Germany. One Thai university I'm associated with has a Thai professor currently on a visiting professor exchange with one of the German unis.

you seem to be (honestly) an expert somehow: do you think universities in Thailand are on the same level as in EU/Germany? In case you would compare diplomas: same level?

[geriatrickid]

I imagine it is a fairly one-way exchange

I believe what you experienced is a fantasy as it is not based in reality.

DAAD is a reputable and respected facility and provides real educational support to deserving Thai nationals. There are a number of educational support programs and they range from short term training exchanges, to generic master & doctoral level studies to 1-3 year fellowships & postdocs, The support announced in Thailand is for local Thais. If there were Germans going to Thailand, the Germans would be funded by the German branch.

Please keep in mind that this is a real partnership between the German universities and student associations and is used to promote German culture and to share the expertise and knowledge available from some of the worlds best. I know that at least from the Public Health perspective, the Germans have been helpful and made a difference. The Khon Kaen medical school has benefited from German intellectual capital. It is quite a difference from the contributions of China and Russia. I suppose they try to make up for it by selling guns and ammo.

[tuanku]

I imagine it is a fairly one-way exchange

I believe what you experienced is a fantasy as it is not based in reality.

DAAD is a reputable and respected facility and provides real educational support to deserving Thai nationals. There are a number of educational support programs and they range from short term training exchanges, to generic master & doctoral level studies to 1-3 year fellowships & postdocs, The support announced in Thailand is for local Thais. If there were Germans going to Thailand, the Germans would be funded by the German branch.

Please keep in mind that this is a real partnership between the German universities and student associations and is used to promote German culture and to share the expertise and knowledge available from some of the worlds best. I know that at least from the Public Health perspective, the Germans have been helpful and made a difference. The Khon Kaen medical school has benefited from German intellectual capital. It is quite a difference from the contributions of China and Russia. I suppose they try to make up for it by selling guns and ammo.

You have confirmed my premise, that the intellectual contribution from Germany to Thailand far outweighs any in the opposite direction. A one way exchange of ideas and knowledge.

[Charly2007]

I'm German and I would like to tell the German ambassador: Please shut your mouth, whatever you say can be abused by the Thai propaganda machinery.