Author: United States Operations Mission to Thailand
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: United States Operations Mission to Thailand
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: J. Alexander Caldwell
Publisher: Lexington, Mass : Lexington Books
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Author: Culver S. Ladd
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468547356
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Is Thailand the Test Case for Asian Development? That is the issue that caught my imagination and attracted me to teach and research in Thailand in 1964 and it has caught my constant attention over the years to the processes that were applied to help that nation develop. the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) financing of the Bhumipol (Yanhee) Dam at Tak in Northwest Thailand as a study of how corruption can be eliminated in development is to vital a testament of "how to control corruption" that it must be told! Yes, it is possible to eliminate corruption! But it takes patience and determination on the part of the financing agency and administrators! It takes time! Yet once achieved the citizens have pride in its integrity! By 1972-3 Thailand had developed more than a dozen colleges and universities and finally the Ministry of Education permitted the establishment of a private college with the founding of Bangkok College. discussions began for the founding of a Christian college and in 1974 Payap college was founded in Chiang Mai with 204 students. Private colleges operated as tuition charging institutions and manages to grow rapidly. In 1985 Payap College was able to meet the requirement of the Ministry for certification as the first private University in Thailand. Today that Payap University enrolls nearly 8,000 students in more than 24 different degree programs. As these processes of development and educational advancement have been going on in Thailand political development has also been maturing. Where since 1932, Thailand has been known as a "Land of the Coups" there has been change when for example a prime minister has decided to "resign" rather than waiting to be couped; and after a particularly violent coup in 1991, the coupmakers are shown on TV in the monarch's presence. Generals do not enjoy being embarrassed and are now significantly more restrained. When an election can be peacefully conducted and a woman elected prime minister, politics has made real progress! Even so, as Thailand floods, the political infighting is becoming vicious and we hold our breath and pray that the generals restrain!

Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138

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Author: Pia Jolliffe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351664670
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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How particular has Southeast Asia’s experience of educational development been, and has this led to an identifiably distinct Southeast Asian approach to the provision of education? Inquiry into these questions has significant consequences for our understanding of the current state of education in Southeast Asia and the challenges it has inherited. This book contributes to a better understanding of the experience of educational development in Southeast Asia by presenting a collection of micro-historical studies on the subject of education, policy and practice in the region from the emergence of modern education to the end of the twentieth century. The chapters fathom the extent to which contest over educational content in schools has occurred and establish the socio-cultural, political and economic bases upon which these contestations have taken place and the ways in which those forces have played out in the classrooms. In doing so, the book conveys a sense of the extent to which modern forms of education have been both facilitated and shaped by the region’s specific configurations; its unique demographic, religious, social, environmental, economic and political context. Conversely, they also provide examples of the sorts of obstacles that have prevented education making as full an impact on the region’s recent 'modern' transformation as might have been hoped or expected. This book will be of interest to academics in the field of Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Studies, education, nationalism, and history.

Author: S. Rakwijit
Publisher:
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Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Author: Harvey Henry Smith
Publisher:
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Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division
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Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division
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Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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