The Integrated Education Curriculum Reformation and the Permanency in Career Development in the Field of Information Technology

Abstract

In the area of Northern Thailand, there were no qualified graduates to serve the required fields of IT labor markets since the graduates tend to choose the popular  fields of studies rather than what the labor markets have been expected.  Since Thailand will be entering in to the ASEAN markets in 2015, there is a crucial need to reform educational administration in order to engage the graduates to have the passions in studying in accordance with the required fields of labor markets which would lead to the permanence of their careers.  The educational reformation will cover 4 provinces in the Northern regions by engaging both government and private sectors and analyze their needs to develop qualified curriculum which will be able to produce graduates that can serve the demands of labor markets.  The reformed curriculum was conducted in 26 institutes along with the education of the new curriculum was given to the teachers in the sampled institutes. The results indicated that the curriculum that best match the needs of the labor markets of the communities were software development curriculum, mixed-media production, and computer graphics and animation production.  The reformed curriculum educated to the sampled groups of teachers indicated that their skills have been improved up to 69.6%, the performances of the graduates have been increased up to 45.3% while the happiness in the study of the reformed curriculum was as high as 86%.