New Introduction to Thai Education: THAMMASAT FRONTIER SCHOOL

Abstract

Bachelor Degree program without specific major or faculty: THAMMASAT FRONTIER SCHOOL has been approved by the University Council meeting on 29th October 2018. The program has started to enrol the students for the first time in 2020 with the purpose that the students should be able to find their interest and apply to the faculty they truly prefer. The program will be taught by the new method as there will be no specific course layout in the first year but the course will follow the faculty or program they interested in the year after. This provoke interests in how the senior high school students and their parents think of this program. The purpose of this research is to study the insight of the senior high school students on this Bachelor Degree program in terms of awareness, attitude, and decisions made by students combined with the study of the attitudes of parents in the same subject through survey research to get the results from all aspects. The research shows that the awareness of senior high school student and their parents about this program is 54.7 percent and 61.3 percent respectively. The attitude on the program is both well received for both parents and students. Finally, the students and their parents also concluded that both of their decisions are on the same page that they should continue the education in this program 58.4 percent and 64.5 percent respectively. This confirms that the decision to continue through the program is higher than the program awareness itself. The university has to raise more awareness and attracts more senior high school students and their parents on this program as much as possible.