Degree of trouble for great Thai university

Thanin Bumrungsap, president of Thailand’s Asian Institute of Technology Alumni Association, presents a very clear and accurate picture of the current sad situation at AIT. He is right in saying the principal stakeholders of any university are its alumni. Moreover, some of the most successful universities in the world attribute their success to the role of their alumni in their governance and support.

If, because of the current impasse as explained by Thanin, AIT currently has no juristic status as an intergovernmental organisation in Thailand, under what authority does it award degrees?

Professor John Belcher

Tokyo