Nong Khai Technical College.

What you get out of the other end

Upper-secondary and diploma vocational certificates in its own right (Wor Chor and Sor Wor Chor), plus the Bachelor of Technology degree, which is conferred by its parent institute rather than by the college.

Part of Institute of Vocational Education: Northeastern Region 1. Where a parent body is named here, it is the parent body that confers — the site teaches.

On the founding date: Teaching opened on 2 January 1938 under the name Nong Khai Carpentry School, in borrowed space -- the canteen of Pathumthep Wittayakarn School. That makes it, by four decades, the oldest institution on this page.

Nong Khai Technical College at a glance

Nong Khai Technical College is the province's oldest institution of any kind on this page and, for a working adult, its most useful. It opened on 2 January 1938 as Nong Khai Carpentry School, teaching in the canteen of Pathumthep Wittayakarn School until it had premises of its own. It now runs on two sites in Mueang Nong Khai District: site 1 at 306 Moo 5, Mittraphap Road, Pho Chai Subdistrict, and site 2 in Hat Kham Subdistrict.

The reason it belongs on a higher-education page is a structure that is invisible from the college's name. The college is a constituent college of the Institute of Vocational Education: Northeastern Region 1, and it is the institute -- not the college -- that confers degrees. The college's own documentation sets out three teaching levels: the vocational certificate, the higher vocational diploma, and one degree programme delivered under the institute, the Bachelor of Technology.

The college's own 2022 course document lists that degree across seven majors: Automotive Technology, Production Technology, Electrical Technology, Electronics Technology, Civil Technology, Information Technology and Architectural Technology. Below degree level it lists 14 vocational-certificate fields and 16 higher-diploma fields, from welding, machine tools and refrigeration through to mechatronics and robotics, logistics and supply chain, and digital business technology. Programme lists move year to year, so treat that as the 2022 picture and confirm the current intake with the college.

For an expat family or a foreign employer, the practical consequence is that Nong Khai has a technically trained local workforce and a route to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology inside the provincial capital -- something the page you are reading previously said did not exist here.

Notable facts

• Opened 2 January 1938 as Nong Khai Carpentry School -- 40 years older than any other institution profiled here, and 60 years older than the KKU campus.
• Two sites in Mueang Nong Khai District: site 1 at 306 Moo 5, Mittraphap Road, Pho Chai Subdistrict; site 2 in Hat Kham Subdistrict.
• Degree-level study runs through the Institute of Vocational Education: Northeastern Region 1, which awards the Bachelor of Technology. The college teaches it; the institute confers it.
• Seven Bachelor of Technology majors in the college's own 2022 documentation: Automotive, Production, Electrical, Electronics, Civil, Information and Architectural Technology.
• Also 14 vocational-certificate fields and 16 higher-diploma fields in that same document, including mechatronics and robotics, logistics and supply chain management, and business foreign languages.

Sources & References

• Ministry of Education, Thailand

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