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This critical and historical investigation of higher education within Thailand has explored the ways in which excellence and equity have played out over time in Thailand’s higher education’s development. Classified as a Third World and developing country, Thailand’s key objective has been to improve its global status. In that endeavour, as has been demonstrated in the chapters, legislative and regulatory decision-making over the past century has led to major nationwide responses to questions relating to the purpose and character of, and access to, higher education. The chapters have investigated that decision-making by interrogating the mechanisms and reciprocities that have operated at the international level to trigger changes that, at times, have run up against long-standing cultural norms and ideologies. Along the way we explored the economic and social problems those changes have generated and the effects that the changes have had on educators and students as well as on teaching and learning. |
