การเปรียบเทียบการรับรองปริญญาสถาปัตยกรรมศาสตรบัณฑิตเพื่อเข้าสู่วิชาชีพระหว่างประเทศไทยกับนานาชาติ / อัศนีย์ วัฒนศิลป์ = A comparative study of professional degree programs : differences in accreditation of bachelor of architecture programs between thailand and the international community / Assanee Watanasilp
Presently, present our world is under rapid economic development and change especially in trade and services. The world’s economy is open for all free countries to compete in the wide free trade arena. With new markets opening everywhere, countries are coping with their development in trade and services very quickly, forcing Thailand to improve its efficiency and competing abilities. The architectural profession is important to the construction sector of the economy and with the liberalized trade philosophy and widening of services, it has come up against more competition from various countries, making the development in practicing careers for the development of expertise in career personnel becomes more vital and inevitable. The improvement of the certification of the bachelor programs will play a part in raising architectural standards by boosting the production of personnel in society through efficient and quality education. This is deemed a firm step to bring education institutions and personnel in line with international standards. This research has the objective to analyze the development of Thai architectural education. It was found from the study that the course quality control of architectural education in Thailand and international community can be divided into 2 parts, the first part deals with the education control at the higher education level and the second part deals with the control of the architectural profession. It was found that each country has its own system regarding the standards and requirements of certifying architecture programs which differ among countries, depending on social context, economy and culture. The study found that the factors involving the certification of architecture programs in of Thailand and other countries comprises of 1) organization or supervising body in the process of certification, 2) period of course, 3) imposing of credits in each subject, 4) imposing of scope of category of subjects in architecture programs, 5) certification process and visiting of courses conducted in Thailand. Therefore, it can be concluded that the certification of architectural programs in Thailand is different than the international communities in the administration of the course and the imposing of rules including other factors such as social preparedness to be a quality standard course of architectural study. In addition, there are following proposals: 1) Giving importance to the coordination among relevant bodies or organizations in a more serious manner, 2) Improving the processes involved in granting certification for the quality assessment of the course to be efficiently conducted, 3) Study the affecting factors on the assessment of the course quality to be the troubleshooting guideline on problems. The methods suggested will be the basic foundation for strong development of architectural programs to be of good quality and high standards to lift the level of Thai architecture the international level.
