Realizes the importance of life-long learning and offers courses for people of all
4.3 Lifelong learning measures
4.3.3 Does your university as a body host events at university that are open to the general public: executive education programmes and/or vocational training?
Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University under the Royal Patronage (VRU) realizes the importance of life-long learning and offers courses for people of all ages with a primary purpose of making their quality of life better, equipping them with job skills, and enhancing their potential to create values for themselves and the society. As of academic year 2020, courses can be divided as follows.
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Short courses
VRU aims at enhancing students’ skills that respond to the specific needs of some jobs so that they can make their quality of life better, get a better job, increase their potential, and add values to themselves and the society. Thus, VRU offers short courses that encourage life-long learning for those who want to reskill or upskill themselves, which make them well-rounded, skillful, and efficient. Courses that VRU have offered include making processed products, drawing for gardening design, foot massaging, and taking care of the elderly.
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Training courses/academic services
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VRU serves as a community patron, a place for academic citation, and an institution that helps develop the community academically, which result in more skillful community members and strong community. To this end, VRU has offered academic services to organizations such as Border Patrol Police School and organized courses/workshops such as developing entrepreneurs’ skills of making online marketing plans and product standards, learning Sufficiency Economy Philosophy for newcomers, designing learning management plans and active learning, developing teacher tool kits, and coaching for igniting inspiration.
