I'm in a different time zone for quite a while, visiting my niece and her family ka.
My sister and I are staying at an Airbnb not far from my niece's ka....it's quite spacious and in this place, we've got our room with a private restroom. Like many other Airbnbs, we can benefit from its kitchen and living room....here we also get to use one small office which is perfect for me to zoom my several meetings ka. The host isn't home after lunch till late, working as a manager of Tiffany & Co. at Selfridges ka.
In any case, I should have more experiences to share later!
Today, I just skimmed through a booklet on 'Case Studies of University Transformation in Singapore' by Dr. Ora-orn Poocharoen and Qamaruzzaman Amir under the Spearhead Program KhonThai 4.0 ka. In fact, many sectors of Thailand, especially education, have been observing and visiting Singapore very often to learn from this country, yet.......... (for you to fill in the blank kaa!)
This booklet is synthesized to come up with key findings and lessons dee loei ka, some of which are:
1. Singapore is highly competent in deciding and managing higher education reform. Its government focuses on citizens' demands for practice-based and skills-focused education. Its vision has led us to see its significant components in its ecosystem like 'Thinking Schools Learning Nation, 1997' ; 'Teach Less, Learn More, 2004'; and 'Skills Future, 2015'. From several selected policies, it's obvious that Singapore's leadership is truly visionary and capable of developing easy-to-understand strategies for its people to confront possible future disruptions and reforms.
2. One key success factor of the government's efforts is to use 'the whole-of-government approach' for university transformation to work. This is Thailand's huge challenge in all sectors loei ka.... as we've been working in silos for far too long, plus too many committees, too many priorities na ka. If top leaders of our country take education most seriously, they'd lead the reform to ensure that most relevant ministries and stakeholders are engaged and synergized for our people to become real learners with proper skills of today and tomorrow.
3.Singapore is open to learning from failures with a drive for improvement. We've heard that some collaboration with foreign universities wasn't a success but they benefited from the experiences earned to learn what could be best for their future decisions. It's easier said than done but Singapore was bold to take a risk ka.
The country understands that its people are its most important asset and so it invests in people strategically and continuously. What about Thailand ka?
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