Hello again....I'm keeping myself up for the lost time ka:))!
Now comes to what I'd like to share with you about my second forum moderating on measuring internationalization (IZN) of higher education.
It went much better than expected and in fact, like many Thais, I tended not to expect much but simply tried to do what I could na ka.
1. Bilingual? The host asked me to do it in English but I told her we could try bilingual as it may be more productive for us Thais to express our thoughts in Thai....but it didn't apply to my panelists lae ka. I was amazed when I asked several of them to hear that it'd be much easier for them to speak English throughout as they could think faster in the language.
Um!
Finally, our higher education has seen the fruit of our decades of investment in people to come back to work in universities, jing mai ka?
I also feel hopeful that more of our younger generation will represent Thai higher education well and that our international relations offices will get to be instrumental to drive internationalization forward......if these decision makers could train their teams seriously too.
When I looked around, I realized that there were only like 5 foreigners out of around 100+ in the audience. Still, all felt comfortable to do it in English ka.
What an awesome circle!
2. Stage setup I'm glad that we've gradually moved away from making our panelists sit at a long table decorated with flowers on stage to chairs without tables. It has created much less barrier with the feeling of being open to share ideas while the panelists, me in particular, feel less formal to become more sabai sabai, helping with the flow of thoughts ka.
3. Song This was sort of funny dee ka. One panelist was mentioning that working in international cooperation was lonely while one in the audience said the acronym of his office could also turn into office of one being alone. I was then thinking of the song, 'You never walk alone.' even though on the back of my mind, I thought it could become a little issue for some football fans of other clubs.
It did stirred one panelist a bit ka. To me, that did add to the pleasant atmosphere with a nice flavor of people's preference and expressions:)).....though I don't think I'll use this song again dee gwa!
4. Time to interact When key issues were raised and more time was alloted for the panelists and the participants to discuss back and forth, it was so very lively and enjoyable.
5. Measuring IZN The EU expert has yet to come up with his report but from about 40% of the response return rate, it was helpful for us to have fact-based information (that I said each university may need to revalidate too!) to work further. He put the IZN efforts into three categories: Developing, Establishing, and Enhancing.
When the report is out, I plan to share it with you na ka.
Bye for now ka.
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