Inter Program vs English Program Inthailand
International Study Program and English Program of Thai Educational System If you could decide what to study, what would you choose between an international study program and English program? Nowadays as a developing Thailand, English is still needed to be more frequently used due to the establishment of AEC (ASEAN Economic Community) in 2015. It does not mean that Thai educational system is lack of teaching this universal language to students in all levels of education. These two programs are popular choices of studying for students and their parents’ determination. Nevertheless, the international study program and English program are dissimilar and have differences in curriculums, tuition fees and purposes in teaching which are needed to be considered before making a decision. At one point, the international study program provides courses of study to students which are not based on Thai Ministry of Education that has established, but those course are those outside Thailand of which depend on what country they are based from. On the other hand, the English program studying courses are based on the establishment of the Ministry, but all are taught in English instead of Thai. Another topic of the discussion is a tuition fee for courses of both programs in each semester, which is vastly different. For the international study program, the fee is much higher than the English program. Unfortunately, students who cannot afford it would not get opportunities to study in the program. The English program costs lower than the international study program, but the fee is still in the medium range. The last important issue in this discussion is the purposes in teaching students between two programs. While the English program focuses on academic knowledge more like most Thai academic institutes, the international study program would focus on English skills, such as communication, speaking and writing, and global societies in the view of western countries. In short, both