Thailand’s Internationalization for Excellence in Training Global Citizens
Education, at the core, is to explore possibilities for growth at all levels; be they personal, institutional, national, and/or international. Internationalization, both at home and abroad, is a catalyst for education to do its office to the fullest. With the least encumbrances of closures and borders in the context of internationalization, education unlocks the door for a promising transformational growth engine to take root.
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How to Write Like a Poet
For learners of English as a foreign language, writing seems to be the most difficult among the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The degree of difficulty varies from person to person, depending on how much the learners have exposed to using the language. As for now, let’s see how we can write eloquently like a poet.
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Our Tongue Is Our Life
พูดดีเป็นศรีแก่ตัว พูดชั่วพาตัวมัวหมอง” (Pood-dee-phen-sri-kae-tau Pood-chua-pha-tua-mua-mong) is a Thai proverb which can be translated as “a good speech brings about glory to oneself while the bad one ruins our reputation.” This proverb, when sincerely adopted to life, can lead us to reach our respective destiny. Our tongue works like a life compass; we can go right or wrong in life largely depends on how we use our tongue in speech.
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A Good Life with the Principle
What do you do when you feel agitated and hopeless? I imagine you, as I sometimes did, just want to sit idly for hours without the will to meet with anyone or anything that fails you. When hit hard by such and such depressive feelings, you might go too far and start to talk yourself out of peace, live a worthless life, criticize the world and people around, or feed on self-pity.
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Risk Management on the Move
“There is beauty for ashes” is the very notion that proves to be an amazing source of power to uphold our spirit, especially when we are faced with stresses and/or nerve-racking situations. This happened to me when I had to attend a two-day workshop on Organizational Risk Management at my university. At my age, sitting and listening to long lectures is not easy.
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Leadership @ Work: A Road to Success
Leadership finds its finest meaning in the workplace. It is the quality that intrinsically exists within every single staff member, regardless of status or administrative position. One might argue that this is not true; it is just a boss’s sugar-coated message that has nothing to do with real-life situations.
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Eco-Friendly Mindset: Green Office & Clean Conscience
e Biblical notion of a fallen world we are living in is, as days go by, increasingly filled with twists and turns that make our lives complicated, dispirited, and disappointing. Presently, we have been bombarded with all kinds of calamities and occurrents conspicuously detrimental to our physical, mental, and spiritual health. Global warming and COVID-19, not to mention the current wars between Russia and Ukraine or Israel and Gaza Strip,
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Leadership @ Work: A Road to Success
To many Thai undergraduate students who use English as a foreign language, passing B1 of the CEFR English examination seems to be a sheer pain in the neck. Such pain, in fact, looms large as it also affects teachers and administrators whose responsibility is to help their students pass the examination, a major requirement for all undergraduate students prior to receiving a degree of their chosen field of study. Two contrasting views, not to say conflict,
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