AIT operations back to normal following return to 'old charter'
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The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) said Thursday that the difficulties surrounding its legal status had ended following a decision in December to bring back its old charter.
The announcement meant 499 students from more than 30 countries will be able to attend their graduation ceremonies, without worrying about the validity of their degrees.
“We have now returned to normalcy after three main difficulties," Acting AIT President Prof Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai told reporters Thursday at a press conference.
He said the legal problems included flooding on AIT’s campus, its public-private partnership (PPP) plan that led to a disagreement among its alumni, and its legal status issue with the Thai government after AIT issued a new charter in January 2012.
“We don’t have any deals with private companies anymore. We’ve also followed the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s instructions to return to the old charter which was ratified in 1967,” Worsak said.
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