richard10365

richard10365, on Today, 21:49 , said:

Thanks. I did check it out and will speak to them tomorrow on the phone. looks good

I did find the Payup courses very good and though was maybe intense for me ( I am a little slow maybe ) but I would go back there for sure if I had some accommodation closer and also could work the classes and time in between as a longer break for me would be good.

The YMCA is also really good and the teacher I had as a tutor was a young bloke, very good and willing to help me work out the problems I had with learning.

DocN, on 2012-04-14 19:57:06, said:

i don't have negative feelings when i touch boobs.

I believe this topic has been dealt with extensively on this forum already.

(I wish people would use the search button).

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Thanks for the insightful post, Richard.  I know several people who have studied at International programs--mostly Master's Degree students.  A very wide variety of nationalities were represented, usually small enough classes that they got a lot of individual attention and extremely highly qualified professors--mostly from overseas universities.

Nisa, on 2012-03-10 15:43:48, said:

Thank you for your reply as i want people to know real Thai culture. If you have any questions please ask.

I went to Thai culture and history classes while I was teaching at Payap University in Chiang Mai. I also learned about traditional music and dance. The professors taught me a lot about Thai culture as I was invited into their homes and family life. Thai people are very warm and loving and for those who embrase their culture will know how wonderful Thailand truly is. I am sincerely blessed to live here and learn their culture and lifestyle that is peaceful and sooo friendly. For those who wish to learn true Thai culture they will have a wonderful experience they will cherish for a lifetime.

have fun,
Randy

Again, in many posts,  we see blanket negative statements about Thai universities and I suspect these comments are mostly from people who have no real / no specific insights into this matter.

Let's be up front - there is no doubt whatever that Thailand (and the same in many many countries across the world) has good quality universities and quite a few poor quality universities.

As just one offshore example, the USA has the same sliding scale, and here are many many countries which fit this picture.

A different example, a few years back I attended an invited international business case competition organized by a very 'prestigious' USA University.

Thirty 'prestigious' universities from across the world were invited, second place went to a university from Brazil and they well deserved it.  (First place went to a business school from Shanghai, China.)

Leading / coaching the second place team was an impressive Brazilian lady. In one conversation (started by an American professor, who was lamenting the fact that the USA has many poor quality unis and lamenting the overall decline of standards across all US universities), she mentioned the same points, she shared that Brazil has excellent unis and also has very very poor quality unis.

I am a committee member for Ph.D. studies in two so called better Thai universities.

Recently we arranged a shared committee with the National University of Singapore for one candidate (mostly done by Skype), and in fact it was NUS who suggested this arrangement and I can assure you that NUS doesn't rush into any 'arrangements' without checking the 'credibility' of such an arrangement.

Another example, about two years back one of our international MBA students (after she completed the second half of her MBA here and graduated here)  decided to stay for the first half of her Ph.D. studies then transfer back to her original (prestigious) university in France to complete her Ph.D. Her university in France readily agreed to the whole arrangement..

A different point, entry to most Ph.D. programs world wide, is based more on interviews with the director of Ph.D. programs plus the committee members for that institute, with lesser emphasis on where the Masters degree was achieved and lesser emphasis on GPA.

What are the director / the committee members looking for in the interview?  Mostly they want to be assured, through extended, often tricky backwards and forwards discussion (interview), that the candidate has deeper than 'normal' insight into the subject area and has developed some further theories etc., on that subject which appear to have merit. And not looking for assurance that the candidate can remember the bullet points in the text book.

NinjaNick, on 2012-02-24 10:41:33, said:

Snakehead, or hua gnu, is Thai slang for dirty old men. You can find them all around the Loi Kro road area. They can be be distinguished from other farang species by their white hair (if they have any), fat bellies, cheap TESCO Lotus clothes, tattoos, ignorant opinions that are never wrong and a dark, usually Issan, old retired sex worker they met on the Internet or when she was freelancing in an Internet shop.. It's very easy to hook this species but I have absolutely no idea why anyone would want to.

If you are a member of this forum you probably know enough about Thailand to understand that is a very socially conservative country. There is no freedom or speech or expression. It is illegal to criticize public officials or those with a higher social caste than your own. The list goes on and on.

Farang in Thailand have a single specific faux pas which I believe just absolutely crushes our imagine in the eyes of the Thai populous and that action is parading around the country in public with women who are not appropriately dressed by Thai social standards and who behave impolitely by Thai social standards. This alone makes it impossible for Thais to take farang seriously. Because Thai people are so polite, instead of confronting farang directly about their public rudeness, they simply turned the other cheek until it became so common that they stopped caring.

Just something to think about the next time the Visa requirements change or you don't get your rental deposit back.