{"id":4254,"date":"2020-05-01T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T07:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T07:52:08","slug":"higher-education-in-an-era-of-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/en\/4254\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Education in An Era of Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr.&nbsp;Kitipong&nbsp;Promwong, NXPO President, gave a lecture on \u201cHigher Education in An Era of Disruption\u201d as part of the STI Policy Design Course Year 2. He highlighted that&nbsp;industry&nbsp;nowadays&nbsp;is looking for talents with skills and competences readily for the job, not just educational qualifications as it used to. Higher education institutes therefore need to make adjustment&nbsp;in order&nbsp;to produce graduates with employability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-19.jpeg\" alt=\"A person holding a sign\n\nDescription automatically generated\" class=\"wp-image-4255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-19.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-19-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-19-768x510.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Joining Dr.&nbsp;Kitipong&nbsp;in the lecture was Dr.&nbsp;Sakarindr&nbsp;Bhumiratana, former President of King Mongkut\u2019s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT). Dr.&nbsp;Sakarindr&nbsp;added that education and training must be designed to fulfil the demand of the job market&nbsp;and&nbsp;geared towards experience-based learning, as well as&nbsp;facilitate life-long learning. Reskilling, upskilling,&nbsp;multiskilling&nbsp;and non-degree&nbsp;programs&nbsp;will become more important to train current workforce as new technologies are constantly introduced to industries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-20.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of people in a room\n\nDescription automatically generated\" class=\"wp-image-4256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-20.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-20-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-20-768x510.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>STI Policy Design Course is a 5-month program aiming at developing capacity of policy researchers, policy analysts and policy development specialists working in the STI system in Thailand and supporting the network formation of people working on STI policy for future knowledge exchange and collaboration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-21.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of people sitting at a table\n\nDescription automatically generated\" class=\"wp-image-4257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-21.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-21-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-21-768x510.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-22.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of people sitting at a table\n\nDescription automatically generated\" class=\"wp-image-4258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-22.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-22-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-22-768x510.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.&nbsp;Kitipong&nbsp;Promwong, NXPO President, gave a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DSC_0710-scaled.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/author\/adminsti\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DSC_0710-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}