Qualification, in plain words
Bachelor's-level tourism and hospitality teaching. SRU's own timeline records the Tourism Industry (Airline Business) programme being taught at the International School of Tourism in Ko Samui district from B.E. 2553 (2010). The degree is conferred by SRU.
Awarded or overseen by: Suratthani Rajabhat University. In Thailand the body whose name is on the gate is often not the body that confers the qualification, so this is worth checking before you commit to a place to live around a campus.
On the founding year: 2005 is when the International School of Tourism was created as a division of SRU by ministerial regulation. Teaching on Koh Samui is recorded from B.E. 2553 (2010).
International School of Tourism, Suratthani Rajabhat University (Koh Samui teaching site) at a glance
The International School of Tourism is a separate SRU unit from the Koh Samui Interdisciplinary School, and the two are easy to confuse because both are tourism-facing and both are attached to the island. It was created in 2005, in the ministerial regulation that divided the newly-chartered university into its faculties and schools, and it appears on SRU's own list of the university's nine faculties and college-level units.
What matters for anyone weighing a move is that it is not only a mainland school. SRU's own institutional history records that in B.E. 2553 (2010) it opened teaching in the Tourism Industry (Airline Business) programme at the International School of Tourism in Ko Samui district. Programme offerings at Thai universities are revised often, so treat the current course list as something to confirm with SRU directly rather than as settled.
Notable facts
- Named on SRU's own faculty list as one of the university's nine faculties and college-level units, alongside the Koh Samui Interdisciplinary School -- they are two units, not one.
- SRU's own timeline dates island teaching here to 2010, in airline business within the tourism industry programme, which predates the Interdisciplinary School's creation by fourteen years.
- Because the school also operates from SRU's mainland campus, confirm with the university which specific programmes run on the island in a given academic year before planning a move around it.
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Sources & References
- Suratthani Rajabhat University -- university profile and institutional timeline (Koh Samui Interdisciplinary School)
- Koh Samui Interdisciplinary School, SRU -- programmes currently offered
- Office of the Vocational Education Commission -- government vocational institutions in Surat Thani province
- OVEC Dual Vocational Education Centre, Southern Region 1 (Surat Thani Technical College) -- member colleges
- Bhavana Bodhigun Vocational College (BBVC Samui) -- college history and published figures
- Ramkhamhaeng University, Overseas Academic Services Centre -- organization: regional campuses and regional examination centres
- MGR Online, 14 November 2013 -- signing of the agreement to establish a vocational college for Ko Samui district at Taling Ngam
Primary and official sources are cited above. Government rules, fees and procedures in Thailand change over time and vary by office; always confirm current requirements with the relevant authority before relying on them. BAANLYY never takes paid placement in editorial content.
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