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In an attempt to tackle obesity on its campus, a university in Jiangsu, China, is offering overweight students the chance to enroll in a special weight-loss program, where they will receive their grades based on how much weight they shed and on how well they do in class. Zhou Quanfu, a
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While other girls her age play video games, an 11-year-old from the South keeps earning credits at an open university. Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University has announced that Supanida Apaiwong passed two more courses -- public law and introduction to management -- this semester. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST ONLINE REPORTERS
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Thailand is planning to allow foreigners to set up universities in Special Economic Zones in an effort to address skill shortages. The plan has already won the green light from the joint meeting of the Cabinet and the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). Full story: The Nation By The Nation
Read More The Council of University Presidents of Thailand (CUPT) has requested an English version of the national tests which students sit to apply for universities to offer more chances for English Programme (EP) students to enter tertiary education. The call comes after CUPT received complaints from schools with EPs that their students
Read More Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has invoked Section 44 of the interim constitution to tackle chronic problems in the country's tertiary education sector. The invocation of the sweeping power by Gen Prayut, also head of the National Council for Peace and Order, was announced in the Royal Gazette Wednesday. Full story: Bangkok Post DUMRONGKIAT
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China is warning its students to steer clear of fake universities. An information website has published a list of 30 such institutions following the annual college entry exam in June. This is the sixth such list in existence. Apparently, faking an entire educational institution isn’t all that difficult. And authorities say
Read More VOCATIONAL colleges with a record of student brawls will be banned from enrolling new students next year. Chaiphruek Serirak, secretary-general of the Office of Vocational Education Commission (Ovec), said yesterday this measure - implemented in Ayutthaya earlier - would apply to both public and private colleges. There were five colleges on
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BANGKOK, 20 June 2016, (NNT) - The Ramkhamhaeng University (RU) and the Wang Thong Lang District Office have organized an anti-drugs campaign in Bangkok. RU Vice-President for Public Relations Leena Limapichat, says the project is aimed at preventing residents of the communities of Soi Ramkhamhaeng 21 and 39 from using drugs. Read
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