Private sector pitches in to realise Thailand 4.0

By The Nation

 

Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin

 

BANGKOK: -- THE Ministry of Education has signed a memorandum of understanding with Big C Super Center Plc to conduct training activities for 5,000 vocational students in the four subjects of logistics, public relations, marketing and accounting throughout its 100 branches.

Another private corporation will train and transfer technology related to the Bangkok-Nong Khai high-speed train project.

 

Both are among the 1,500 companies interested in training as many as 80,000 students to prepare them for the labour market.

 

Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin said the initiatives for vocational students put emphasis on raising their ability to be |able to perform well when they get jobs. “Our concept is to transform working places into schools. The students can do short courses and get credit.”

 

The Education Ministry has also opened talks with a number of foreign universities to introduce courses and produce students to serve the Thailand 4.0 initiative.

 

Some of the universites could be located in the Eastern Economic Corridor, inlcuding the well-known Carnegie Mellon University from the US, as well as schools from the UK and Japan.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30324370

 

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working in a Big C or watching the Chinese build the train.

 

Thailand 4.0

 

 

 

Thailand 4.0 Similar to Hawai 50 but with more criminals

 

Also heard that Poundstrecher are doing the same in the UK

 

 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

THE Ministry of Education has signed a memorandum of understanding with Big C Super Center Plc to conduct training activities for 5,000 vocational students

Why is a MOU required between a corporation and the government?

Companies like Big C have a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders in the management of company resources. If the MOU doesn't financially benefit the company profitability (untrained vs trained over staffing), there seems to be some other motivation occurring.

Every time I go to Big C all I see is under worked staff sitting in the aisles pretending to be working but actually either playing Candy Crush or on FaceBook, heaven forbid that you actually disturb them by asking if they know what aisle a certain product to be in or if they actually sell a specific product, they take more interest of what they pick out of their noses than their jobs. Bloody useless all of them.