Founding and status: Constituted by ministerial regulation of 13 June 2012 under the Vocational Education Act B.E. 2551 (26 February 2008).
What is awarded here: Continuing Bachelor of Technology and equivalent bachelor's degrees, conferred by the institute for study at its nine member colleges. Nine of its 21 published bachelor's programmes are taught in Nakhon Pathom province.
Who awards the degree: Institute of Vocational Education: Central Region 4 itself. Qualifications taken here carry this institution's own name.
Institute of Vocational Education: Central Region 4 at a glance
The Institute of Vocational Education: Central Region 4 is a degree-conferring institution with its head office at 90 Thesa Road, Tambon Phra Pathom Chedi, in Nakhon Pathom city -- a few hundred metres from the great chedi. It was constituted by ministerial regulation on 13 June 2012 under the Vocational Education Act B.E. 2551, which gave institutes of vocational education the power to award vocational certificates, high vocational certificates and bachelor's degrees.
It has nine member colleges across Nakhon Pathom, Ratchaburi, Kanchanaburi and Suphanburi, and the degrees are conferred by the institute rather than by the college a student attends -- the same relationship that hides degree provision in provinces all over Thailand. Of the 21 bachelor's programmes on its published curriculum list, nine are delivered in this province: Electrical Technology and Mechanical Technology at Nakhon Pathom Technical College, and Accounting, Hotel Studies, Logistics Management, Food Technology and Nutrition, Digital Graphics, Digital Business Technology and Retail Business Management at Nakhon Pathom Vocational College. That is more than any other province in the region, and it is a genuine, working route to a bachelor's degree for someone already holding a high vocational certificate.
Notable facts
- Head office at 90 Thesa Road, Tambon Phra Pathom Chedi, Mueang Nakhon Pathom 73000; telephone 034-242856.
- Nine member colleges across four provinces -- Ratchaburi Technical, Photharam Technical, Kanchanaburi Technical, Kanchanaburi Vocational, Kanchanaburi Industrial and Community Education, Nakhon Pathom Technical, Nakhon Pathom Vocational, Suphanburi Technical and Suphanburi Vocational.
- Nine of its 21 published bachelor's programmes are taught in Nakhon Pathom province, at Nakhon Pathom Technical College and Nakhon Pathom Vocational College.
- The degrees are continuing (top-up) programmes designed for holders of a high vocational certificate, so this is a bridge to a bachelor's for people already working locally.
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