STRATEGIES TOWARDS THE WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITIES OF THAI HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

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STRATEGIES TOWARDS THE WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITIES
OF THAI HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
World Class Universities

• Kampechara Puriparinya
• Email kampechara_at_yahoo.com
• Higher Education Program Chulalongkorn
  University
• Bangkok Thailand

Prepared for presentation at 2nd International
Conference on World-Class Universities(WCU-2)
October 31-November 3 2007 Shanghai Jiao Tong
UniversityShanghaiChina
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Outline of presentation Strategies Towards the
World Class universities(WCUs) of
World Class Universities
WCUs Introduction
Definitions
Conceptual Mappings of WCUs
WCUs Rankings-International Rankings
Global Rankings WCUs Rankings
Regional Rankings National Rankings
WCUs Methodologies
1.Study the success factors of WCUs
2.Current situation of Thai HEIs
3.Proposed corporate level of strategies towards
the WCUs of Thai HEIs
WCUs Chulas Success stories
1. Positioning success stories
2.Reflections success stories from the ranking
resources
3.Specimens of Chulas success stories
WCUs Conclusions
General discussion
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WCUs Introduction
World Class Universities

• Current and trends of HE are changing drastically
• HEIs The Socializing agents
• The Core functions of HE as the community
  scholars the places of attractions and pool
  wisdom enhancing for quality excellence in
  teaching research community service promotion
  and preservation of cultural dimensions.

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WCUs Introduction
World Class Universities

• Many challenges impact on humankind and every
  organization/HEIs
• Globalization-global villages
• Rapid development of ICT Transforming
  knowledge-based society/economy
• Free trade area (FTA) General agreement on trade
  in services ( GATS)
• (Knight2002 cited in UNESCO2002
  APEC-HRDWG-EDNET2005.)

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WCUs Definitions
World Class Universities

• The world class university
• Ranking among the foremost Intl standards of
  excellence (Altbach2003)
• Institution of academic programs of excellence a
  strong tradition of academic research and debate
  protection of academic freedom intellectual
  autonomy good governance and cultural tolerance
  and diversity. ( Wichit Srisa-An2005)
• Four freedoms will be required
• Freedom to innovate
• Freedom to work in partnership
• Freedom from bureaucracy and unnecessary
  restrictions and
• Freedom from arbitrary funding pots.(Caldwell
  2003 cited in Clake2003)

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WCUs Seven elements to WCUs
World Class Universities

• Liverpool (October 192005)suggests the seven
  elements to the world-class university
• Internationalizing the curricula
• Increasing student exchanges
• Increasing the number of international students
• Implementing faculty development and exchanges
• Utilizing information technology
• Collaboration with external constituents and
• Advancing international development.

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Views on WCUs
World Class Universities
Outstanding performance in many events
Top list is quality faculty
Research reputation is critical
WCUs (Niland 1998)
Talented undergraduate body
Intl presence
Proper resource is an excellence issue
Alliance and networks
Embrace many disciplines
Technology smart
Practice the art of good management
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Views on WCUs (Contd)
World Class Universities
WCUs (Hemenway the Universities of Kansas
teams Distributions (2006)
Ten Characteristics of a great Universality
Focusing and recognizes the ten characteristic of
the primary and maintenance functions of a great
university (Analytic induction by
researchers2007)
WCUs (Carcia2002)
The three pillars of world class public
universities
Devotion
Accountability
Funding
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Views on WCUs (Contd)
World Class Universities

• CONCLUSION
• In conclusion the world class university is
  higher education institution with the success
  factors of truly internationalization of the core
  mission of teaching learning research
  academic services tolerance of cultural
  diversity and managing quality continuously.

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Views on University Rankings
World Class Universities
Research quality
THES-QS World University Rankings
Graduate employability
International commitment
Four key themes as basis for Comparison.
Teaching quality

• THES
• QS Education
• Trust
• Top Universities

Approach
THES-2006
Peer reviews 40
Recruiter review 10

• New for 2007
• Published annually
• in the Fall

Int l student score 5
Int l Faculty score 5
Faculty/student score 20
( Ben Sowter Head of research team12 Feb 2007)
Citations/faculty score 20
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Examples Criteria/Factors of WCUs Rankings
World Class Universities

• The Worlds Top 200 Universities
• (Criteria/Factors)(THES20052006)

Peer review 40
Recruiter review 10
THES
Intl Faculty score 5
Intl students score 5
Faculty/Students score 20
Citations/Faculty score 20
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Examples Criteria/Factors of WCUs Rankings
World Class Universities

• Figure Academic Ranking of World Universities
• ( Criteria/Factors)(SJTU20052006)

Alumni (NBLFields medals) 10
-Staff(NBLFields medals 20 -HiCi 20
SJTU
-ArticlesN S 20 -Articles SCiSocial Sc.
AHCI 20
Academic performance/size 10
Total Weight 100
Impact of Nobel Prizes (2P5N)
f
Vip
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Examples Criteria/Factors of WCUs Rankings
World Class Universities
Jews IQ Nobel Laureates
Impact of Nobel Prizes (2P5N) f
Vip
Vip Visible Prestige P Pulitzer prizes N
Nobel prizes f Total number of
faculty to measure their prestige (
Barzuncited in Stephen2001)
 
Sourcehttp//www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/dialogue.
htm Retrieved on May 6 2007.
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Examples Criteria/Factors of Regional rankings
World Class Universities

• Figure The best universities in Asia
• (Criteria/Factors) (Asiaweek June 302000)

Acad. Reputation 20
Students selectivity 25
Asiaweek 2000
Faculty resources 25
Research 20
Financial resources10
Grad.Student as of total students
Citations in Intl journals/faculty/researches
Internet bandwidth/student Kbps
(Quit to rank Universities since 2000)
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WCUs Intl Rankings
World Class Universities

• Rankings of WCUs/Intl rankings
• THES
• SJTU-ARWU
• Webometrics Rankings of World Universities
• Financial Times Global MBA Rankings
• Regional Rankings/Intl Rankings
• ASIAWEEK
• National Rankings
• U.S.News World Reports
• Australian Teaching Performance Rankings and
• Many Resources Rankings.

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Examples Criteria/Factors of WCUs Rankings
World Class Universities

• The Worlds Top 200 Universities
• (Criteria/Factors)(THES2005)

Peer review 40
Recruiter review 10
THES
Intl Faculty score 5
Intl students score 5
Faculty/Students score 20
Citations/Faculty score 20
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Examples Criteria/Factors of WCUs Rankings
World Class Universities

• Figure Academic Ranking of World Universities
• ( Criteria/Factors)(SJTU2005)

Alumni (NBLFields medals) 10
Staff(NBLFields medals 20 HiCi 20
SJTU
ArticlesN S 20 Articles SCiSocial Sc. 20
Academic performance/size 10
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Examples Criteria/Factors of WCUs rankings
World Class Universities

• The best universities in Asia
• (Criteria/Factors) (Asiaweek June 302000)

Acad. Reputation 20
Students selectivity 25
Asiaweek 2000
Faculty resources 25
Research 20
Financial resources10
Grad.Student as of total students
Citations in Intl journals/faculty/researches
Internet bandwidth/student Kbps
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WCUs Samples and Overall Scores from League Table
of
World Class Universities
100
(1) (1)
71.6
Overall Scores (Range of score20.8-100)
Overall Scores (Range of score20.8-100)
(2) (4)
43.1
26.6
(22) (22)
Missed
(82) (79)
Source THES(2005) Updated THES-QS(2006)
Source SJTU(2005)
Ranking No.
2005
Updated SJTU (2007)
2005
2007
Science Technology (39 Univs. Range of
Scores 42.71-90.79) KMUTT (Ranked
No.33) SUT(35) MUT(36) (Private) KMIT-NB(37)
2006
The Best Universities in Asia (ASIAWEEK
2000Thai HEIs) Multidisciplinary (77 Univs.
Range of Scores 34.32-82.17) TU (Ranked
No.51) PSU(53) KKU(59) KU(63) CMU(62)
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Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (July
2007)
World Class Universities
Rankingworld Asia
516 36 KU
527 37 CHULA
672 50 PSU
Countries Univs. Africa/58 512 America/52
5022 Asia/47 3456 Europe/57
3988 Oceania/26 96 Total 13074
772 67 AIT
Top 4000 Universities Of 13074 Univers.
Webometrics Ranking www.webometrics.info www.webom
etrics.info/methdology.html
THEIs
805 72 CMU
866 78 TU
877 83 ABAC
Cybermetrics
S Size
887 85 KKU
V Visibility
R Rich Files
916 89 MAHIDOL
Sc Scholar
Webometrics Ranking (position)Rank (4V2SRSc)
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WCUs Statistics by Region (SJTU2005)
World Class Universities
Statistics by Region
39.6
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18.6
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Source http//ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005St
atistics.htm
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Table the statistics by country for
the world top 508 Univs in SJTU Ranking 2007
World Class Universities
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WCUs Methodologies
World Class Universities

• Content analysis
• e-Survey /Search the Webs ranking resources of
  WCUs

Major Findings The Success factors of WCUs
Managing quality and infrastructure
Research
Curriculum and innovation
WUCs Success Factors
Area studies international students and scholars
Public service and cultural intelligence
Technical cooperation and international
development
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Current updates of Thai HEIs
World Class Universities

• National Education Act(1999) and Amendments
  (2002)
• Transforming HEIs-The Administration of Education
  
• Regulatory Act ( July 7 2003)
• MUA is transformed to CHE
• ONESQA

CMU
KKU
CU TU
MUKU
PSU
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World Class Universities
The education system in Thailand

• LLL

Post-Doc. PHDetc. MAMSetc. BABSETC AAAS
Post secondary Higher ed. Community college
college University institute specialized

• Public private
• Specialized

12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 0
Upper secondary high school senior high school
Lower secondary Middle school Junior high school
Primary Elementary school
Pre-primary Kindergarten Nursery school
Pre-kindergarten
Year of schooling
Age
Figure Levels of education in Thailand by age
and year of schooling Source National education
acts 1999 2002)
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Higher Education Statistics
World Class Universities
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University education and selective some
sub-factors (IMD-World competitiveness2005)
World Class Universities
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WCUs Corporate level of strategies of Thai HEIs
World Class Universities
Environmental Scanning STEP Analysis STEEP T
(Terrorism)
O
Aggressive strategies
W
S
T

• IO
• CoE
• Best Practices
• KBM

CQI
Sustainable Development
I QCQATQM
Quality Cycle
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WCUs Focus
World Class Universities
Maintenance
World Class ED. Activities Center
Core mission
Research excellence
Truly Internationalization
Building on momentum and celebrates it successes
Center of Excellence (CoE) And Intelligent
Organization (IO)
Top Quality And values
Curriculum Innovation Teaching
Learning excellence

• Integrity
• Leadership
• Human capital
• Cross-Cultural management
• Best facilities/infrastructure
• CQI/KAIZEN
• Leaders in Technology
• Enterprising
• Philanthropy

Performance/Best Practices Impact to the world

• LLLSDL
• PBL
• BBL
• RBL
• WBL

• E-learning
• Blended
• learning

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Strategies Towards the World Class Universities
of Thai Higher Education
World Class Universities
be intelligent

• Conclusion Suggestion
• Towards the world class universities of Thai
  higher education institutions scenario and long
  range planning are the challenges of the
  executives to build human capital collaboration
  partnership global team internationalizing the
  campus university learning and build the
  centers of excellence for the enterprising
  universities and the intelligent organizations.
• Guiding performance indicators of the study is in
  progress.
• Strengthening of collaboration among HEIs in the
  country and overseas esp. AUN UNU and variety
  of organizations preparedness for free trade in
  educational services and building better world
  universities.

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STRATEGIES TOWARDS THE WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITIES
OF THAI HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
World Class Universities
Chulas success stories

• Prepared for presentation at 2nd International
  Conference on
• World-Class Universities(WCU-2)

• October 31-November 3 2007
• Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghaiChina

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Chulas Success Stories
World Class Universities
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Chulas Success Stories
World Class Universities
Public research Universities Autonomous Univs
Prominent in Research Teaching (Ranked No. 1
) Ranking by Council on HE-2005 (Released 2006)
Research
Teaching
CHULA
CHULA
SUT
KU
KMUTT
CMU
MU
MU
CMU
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Chula s Success stories (Contd.)
World Class Universities
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Chula s Success stories (Contd.)
World Class Universities
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Figure Chulas research outputs ( Jan-July
2007) Abstracts were publicized
in int l Journals
World Class Universities
Source Chulas Research Affairs
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Final Remarks
World Class Universities

• Core values for sustainable development
• Autonomous universities
• Entrepreneurial HEIs
• Healthy HEIs Green campus
• Truly internationalization
• Post Doctoral Scholarships
• P-16 Teacher Training Blended learning
• Networking Outreach Community engagement
• and CSR.
• and so onstrategic initiatives

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Thank you
For Attention
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