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Ministry allots B5bn to upgrade workforce
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 19/08/2024
» The Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) has set aside a 5-billion-baht budget to develop 17,500 highly skilled workers within five years to serve three strategic sectors: semiconductors, electric vehicles (EVs) and artificial intelligence (AI).
Should workers be concerned about AI?
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran & Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 02/02/2024
» Should local organisations and employees be concerned jobs are going to be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) as it is adopted around the globe?
Are your people learning or just training?
Arinya Talerngsri, Published on 22/08/2022
» Two years ago, I realised I had to upskill my sales force. Conditions were changing, and I needed to help them deepen their capability. Many were seasoned salespeople and were open to joining what turned out to be a rapid but comprehensive sales training programme.
German carmakers race to retrain workforce for electric age
AFP, Published on 12/12/2021
» WOLFSBURG (GERMANY) - After her apprenticeship at Volkswagen, Michelle Gabriel was a master at welding, cutting, bending and stretching metal, but just a few years later it's not chassis but software frameworks she's piecing together after a speedy change of career.
Thai at heart
Asia focus, Pattama Kuentak, Published on 15/11/2021
» Born and bred in the city-state, Raymond Han is 100% Singaporean. But his bond to Thailand goes deep, spanning almost two decades. It has led him to where he is now as a top executive of Patra Porcelain, which has been making some of the country's best-known products since 1982.
Risks and rewards of Asia's automation boom
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 22/03/2021
» The ability of automation to disrupt businesses and economies is not a new phenomenon. In the 1800s the factory system in Europe and the development of mechanised production, particularly in the textiles and manufacturing sectors, transformed the world of work and industry and gave rise to workers' movements that smashed the equipment they said was taking their jobs.
OVEC aims for 200,000 robotics workers
Business, Yuthana Praiwan and Suchit Leesa-Nguansuk, Published on 17/12/2020
» The Office of the Vocational Education Commission (OVEC) aims to teach 5,200 Thai vocational students per year the skills required to work alongside and maintain factory robots to meet the estimated demand of 200,000 robotics-trained workers by 2024.
Job sites spring up as unemployed flail
Business, William Hicks, Published on 29/10/2020
» The pandemic has caused mass unemployment globally and domestically, adding pressure to an online employment arena that even before the outbreak failed to provide results for jobseekers in all income stratas.
CIMBT has hopes for recovery in quarters ahead
Business, Darana Chudasri, Published on 06/08/2020
» CIMB Thai Bank (CIMBT) says the country's GDP shows signs of recovery the next few quarters after bottoming out in the second quarter at -14%.
Driven by his passion for technology
Business, William Hicks, Published on 15/02/2020
» Phrases like "digital transformation", "Thailand 4.0", and "S-curve industries" get repeated by the government, businesses and the press so often, they ring as platitudes, losing all meaning.