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Thai education. Crazy degree over ability.

Professor Yong Phuen Wan Royal Academy of Sciences, Center for Specialization in Clinical Virology, School of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, has posted an article expressing concern for the Thai education system.

He said that he was most recently unable to accept a PhD student despite being a professor and teaching for 40 years and producing more than 30 PhD students.

Because the Ministry of Education states that "only PhD graduates" are required to be a consultant / instructor for PhD students.

And finally, he took the PhD and handed it to him, which made it pass, but he wanted to reflect that the problem was the design of a system that had problems for development, because it made the madman a degree rather than a professional development, and that no one was learning the vocational.

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I'm not surprised why Thailand has signed up to the OECD (The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), because Thailand still respects paper, does not look at the ability of individuals.

Why does everyone grab paper? We have a PhD with a lot of paper. It's not weird because everyone wants it.

I took this because I am a PhD consultant, a master's degree, and I have more than 30 PhD students, so that my students have become professors, and I have more than 50 co-consultants, not counting the master's degree they have received since 1997.

I never got a PhD, a graduate of medicine and a pediatrics degree in England, and I didn't care about taking paper, because it would cost me 7,000 pounds a year.

I've been a professor for over 40 years, but on the day of reconciliation, this year I received a PhD. The curriculum says that I can't afford to be a PhD consultant, or simply, I can't accept it because I don't have a PhD, I don't have a paper, I can't accept a PhD student, and I'm surprised that it's void. The curriculum says that with the statutes of the Ministry, people who can accept a PhD mentor have to have a PhD. I also say that otherwise I took a PhD instead of a PhD paper, so it's a PhD paper, so it's passed and it's acceptable because one paper.

I didn't have a paper to say I was an infectious disease expert, and I never cared about paper.

Let me tell you to the adults. Rules are rules, but the statute maker, I don't know what purpose it is. If I hadn't the ability, I wouldn't have accepted more than 30 students and PhD students without a single PhD paper.

I'm not surprised why Thailand can't sign up to the OECD, and to this day everyone is competing for a PhD to get paper, so we don't have a stable profession, and nobody wants to study like a career. Everyone wants to have paper to be an engineer.

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2025/10/10 Edited to

... Read moreในบริบทของระบบการศึกษาไทยที่ได้รับการสะท้อนโดยศาสตราจารย์ นายแพทย์ ยง ภู่วรวรรณ ปัญหาการให้ความสำคัญกับ "กระดาษ" หรือปริญญา มากกว่าความสามารถที่แท้จริง สะท้อนให้เห็นถึงความท้าทายในระบบการศึกษาและตลาดแรงงานไทยอย่างชัดเจน ปัญหานี้เชื่อมโยงกับกฎกระทรวงที่กำหนดให้ "ต้องจบปริญญาเอกเท่านั้น" ถึงจะเป็นที่ปรึกษาปริญญาเอกได้ ถึงแม้ว่าบุคคลนั้นจะมีประสบการณ์สูงและความเชี่ยวชาญจริงก็ตาม ซึ่งการยึดติดกับเกณฑ์ดังกล่าว ส่งผลเสียโดยตรงต่อการพัฒนาวิชาชีพและการเกิดนวัตกรรมใหม่ๆ ในทางกลับกัน การมุ่งเน้นปริญญาส่งผลกระทบต่อความนิยมในการศึกษาสายอาชีวะ ซึ่งคนส่วนใหญ่ไม่อยากเลือกเรียน เพราะมองว่าสายอาชีวะไม่มีความมั่นคงและไม่นำไปสู่ตำแหน่งงานที่ต้องมี "กระดาษ" หรือวุฒิการศึกษาสูงสุด จากข้อมูลนี้สะท้อนความจำเป็นในการปรับเปลี่ยนมุมมองเรื่องการศึกษาที่ต้องเน้นความรู้จริงและทักษะการทำงาน ให้สอดคล้องกับความต้องการของตลาดแรงงานและพัฒนาการของประเทศ ส่วนหนึ่งของปัญหาที่ประเทศไทยยังไม่สามารถเข้าเป็นสมาชิก OECD ได้ เกิดจากการที่ยังให้ความสำคัญกับใบปริญญา มากกว่าความสามารถ แสดงถึงความจำเป็นในการปฏิรูประบบการศึกษาและการรับรองความเชี่ยวชาญที่แท้จริงให้มากขึ้น การแก้ไขอาจเริ่มจากการทบทวนและปรับเปลี่ยนกฎกระทรวงการศึกษา เพื่อยอมรับความเชี่ยวชาญจริงจากประสบการณ์และผลงานอย่างเป็นรูปธรรม ไม่ใช่ยึดติดกับเกณฑ์ปริญญาเพียงอย่างเดียว พร้อมทั้งส่งเสริมและพัฒนาสายอาชีวะให้ถูกปลูกฝังว่าเป็นทางเลือกที่มีคุณค่าและเส้นทางอาชีพที่มั่นคง นอกจากนี้ ได้เน้นย้ำว่าความสามารถที่แท้จริงของบุคคลนั้นๆ สำคัญกว่ากระดาษรับรอง ซึ่งต้องได้รับการยอมรับอย่างจริงจังจากระบบการศึกษาและภาคแรงงาน เพื่อช่วยให้ประเทศไทยก้าวข้ามวิกฤติความต้องการแต่ใบปริญญาและสร้างบุคลากรที่มีคุณภาพตอบโจทย์อนาคตได้อย่างยั่งยืน ดังนั้น การเปิดโอกาสให้ผู้มีความสามารถจริงได้มีบทบาทในสายการศึกษาและการพัฒนา จะเป็นกุญแจสำคัญในการยกระดับคุณภาพการศึกษาและการพัฒนาประเทศอย่างครบวงจรเพื่อตอบรับยุคแห่งการเปลี่ยนแปลงนี้อย่างแท้จริง

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