HalfLight Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 5 minutes ago, roo860 said: I'd want my pound of flesh++++++. Sent from my SM-G920F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app A pound of flesh... lol, yes, I had that and still some to come - outliers mainly, connected but not involved. But this is well off-topic now. Time to wind it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroupA Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 I wonder if any of the responders have university degrees from major universities. The major Thai universities are recognized worldwide. I talking about Chula, Mahidon, Thomasat, Kasart, Chiang Mai, and others. Just like the USA and Europe have both first rate and lower schools. My graduate degree was easily recognized in California years ago when I applied for a PhD program at UCB. In the program I was in there were 18 foreign trained PhDs for 12 graduate students. The professors were out of their way to assure our success but kept standards very high. It was a great experience and why I'm retired and living in Thailand. The Chinese probably chose Thailand because people are generally friendly and helpful, and cost are reasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcpo Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 9 hours ago, Mavideol said: Chinese universities are not much better than the ones in Thailand, same sh.. lived there, know that, Chinese are not smart nor clever as many westerners are, Chinese are much better at cheating/copying then anybody else I met There are some really strong universities in China, and there are none in Thailand, but most people aren't going to get into those, and the better Thai places are around about as good as the mid tier Chinese places, at least as far as I can tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djayz Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 11 hours ago, HalfLight said: I csn't believe there aren't better universities in China than anything Thailand can offer. bearing in mind the positioning of Thai universities on the world scale. On the whole, Chinese people are smart, very smart, especially in tech. Thailand isn't at all smart. Perhaps something else is going on here? Addendum: Ah, just spotted this. Thailand mops up the dregs. the lads and lasses who can't get into Chinese universities. Hardly something to boast about I wouldn't have thought... "Woraphong Dechasasawat, the vice president of one of the country's largest Chinese-language business schools, says the institution aims to find students from among the roughly three million Chinese who would struggle to find university placement back home each year." That and the rumour that nobody here fails tests are probably the two driving factors behind the surge in Chinese student enrollments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redline Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 A 60 thousand dollar a year university in the USA has a much better educational program than the best in Thailand. Seems to be a faulty comparison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer90210 Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Like them or not....but must admit the Chinese are good in subtlely invading nations, mastering the local language, grabbing what's to be grabbed. They are smart...and will plainly swallow up Thailand in one gulp.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fex Bluse Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 1 hour ago, observer90210 said: Like them or not....but must admit the Chinese are good in subtlely invading nations, mastering the local language, grabbing what's to be grabbed. They are smart...and will plainly swallow up Thailand in one gulp.... Well, they already have, haven't they? The entire country is run by Chinese immigrants who have effectively enslaved the native Thais. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mshs Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 9 hours ago, GreasyFingers said: The parents must love their children to spend their hard earned money on degrees that they will never understand that are useless. Parents are generally broke (living beyond their means). It is the tax-payer subsidizing these degrees in the form of student-loans. No bank would lend money for a Gender Studies program if it were not backed by the tax-payer. The path from the university (2/3 women) leads to the media (the average journalist/reporter is dumber than the average citizen). And from the media to politics (currently dominated by lawyers). Space-spaces, fat-acceptance, socialism, sharing-economy, everything free etc. all products of "new age" degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mshs Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 6 hours ago, GroupA said: I wonder if any of the responders have university degrees from major universities. The major Thai universities are recognized worldwide. I talking about Chula, Mahidon, Thomasat, Kasart, Chiang Mai, and others. Just like the USA and Europe have both first rate and lower schools. My graduate degree was easily recognized in California years ago when I applied for a PhD program at UCB. In the program I was in there were 18 foreign trained PhDs for 12 graduate students. The professors were out of their way to assure our success but kept standards very high. It was a great experience and why I'm retired and living in Thailand. The Chinese probably chose Thailand because people are generally friendly and helpful, and cost are reasonable. In CA anything is "easily recognized". Graduate programs require GMAT/GRE and not a university ranking. The Chinese chose Thailand because they did not have the means for US/UK/OZ/NZ or Cyprus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeVonderBearz Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Another side of Imperialism. Move in the students, get them fluent in the language whilst teaching the locals Chinese, get them good jobs at big firms and then these firms will start trading with the Chinese. It's more a slow game now days compared with empires of old where it was a bit more rapey and pillagy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebell Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 19 hours ago, webfact said: Thai universities tap into rising Chinese demand Why would Thai Universities host all-you-can-eat sea-food buffets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fex Bluse Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Many of us have commented on the negatives. However, a big positive will be the Thai young boys will be fawning over the pearl skinned Chinese girls, devising many ways to get into their uniform skirts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAKAPALITA Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Like them or not....but must admit the Chinese are good in subtlely invading nations, mastering the local language, grabbing what's to be grabbed. They are smart...and will plainly swallow up Thailand in one gulp....Youre a bit Slow, they have owned all the power n profit here since they wrote the Visa Regs.Sent from my iPhone using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfLight Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 10 hours ago, djayz said: That and the rumour that nobody here fails tests are probably the two driving factors behind the surge in Chinese student enrollments. Well that is certainly true. Where I used to teach , if students failed an exam, then you re-examined them until they passed, because it was obviously the fault of the (foreign) teacher if the little darlings were too stupid to learn and wanted to play their social games in class-time instead of learning anything - usually with Mum and Dad;s approval. Which was the usual thing. In Thailand, the certificate of graduation is what the school fees paid for, irrespective of the performance of the student. Which is one of the major reasons Thailand is declining in ASEAN ratings as we speak. The education system sucks, the judicial system sucks, the law enforcement system sucks, the government system sucks. Anything run by Thais seems to suck. The whole place is falling apart and only a handful of Thai apologists seem unable to see what is as plain as the noses on their faces. And at the root of it all is the arrogance of the population that makes the education system suck. Thailand jumped the shark some time ago. Don't know what 'Jumped the shark' means? Look it up in Urban Dictionary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfLight Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 43 minutes ago, HAKAPALITA said: Youre a bit Slow, they have owned all the power n profit here since they wrote the Visa Regs. Sent from my iPhone using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Indeed. The Chinese grabbed Thailand a goodly while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyngai Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 China has been down and out for such a long time; average Chinese believe that the grass is greener outside of China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djayz Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 4 hours ago, HalfLight said: jumped the shark Learned something new today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 7 hours ago, ZeVonderBearz said: Another side of Imperialism. Move in the students, get them fluent in the language whilst teaching the locals Chinese, get them good jobs at big firms and then these firms will start trading with the Chinese. It's more a slow game now days compared with empires of old where it was a bit more rapey and pillagy. And then they transfer the intellectual property to the "New Firm" in China and star making copies there, leaving the western carcass behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfLight Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 1 hour ago, djayz said: Learned something new today. Good, innit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAKAPALITA Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Im wary of Students. I can remember those Air Heads at Art Schools in the sixties. Now they let them mix with Doctors, Scientists and Engineers in Unies, studying for real jobs. Never been an Arty Farty Fan. Admire Chinese and Singaporean Students no nonsense approach to learning though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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