Abstract
As a country member, Thailand needs to prepare for the upcoming AEC. One way to look at how the country has prepared for this is to look at the ESP programs offered in universities, both public and private, especially ESP programs in preparation for the eight careers: engineering, hospitality & tourism, architecture, dentistry, medical practices, accounting, surveying, nursing. This study therefore explores the AEC careers offered in public and private universities. This was a descriptive study. The international programs under study fell into two levels: Bachelor (335 programs) and Master (436 programs). The results of descriptive analysis revealed these findings. On the eight AEC careers, three most popular programs offered in Thailand included hospitality & tourism, engineering and accounting respectively. On the other hand, no land surveying programs are offered at both levels; no dentistry programs at Bachelor level; no medical practice is offered at Master level. For policy implication, Thailand should offer these programs in the future.
Highlights
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed an aspiring agreement in 2007 to build ASEAN EconomicCommunity (AEC) to be ''One Vision, One Identity, One Community." The ability and willingness of learning and utilizing new knowledge and technologies are essential to rise up a nation competitiveness, productivity and economy
58 Bachelor and 49 Master programs are offered by English to support 8 ASEAN EconomicCommunity (AEC) careers
At Master level, the findings show that Thai higher institutions only cover six AEC careers: accounting, architecture, dentistry, engineering, hospitality & tourism, and nursing
Summary
Community (AEC) to be ''One Vision, One Identity, One Community." The ability and willingness of learning and utilizing new knowledge and technologies are essential to rise up a nation competitiveness, productivity and economy. ASEAN countries need intelligent workers more than ever before; whereas they do not have educational systems capable of producing the workforces that are required. In order to improve professional qualifications and skills from 2005 to 2012, ASEAN Member signed Mutual Recognition. Arrangement (MRA) to offer 8 standard occupations, which are medical practice (doctor), dentistry, nursing, engineering, accounting, architecture, surveying and hospitality & tourism. Thailand has positioned itself as a hub of higher education in the Southeast Asian countries and aims to develop the quality of higher education that meets international standards in order to strengthen major manpower and enable to compete with the other countries
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