The RGJ strategy provides a unique mechanism and opportunity for universities to enhance desirable and
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| sustainable international collaboration. University faculty members in most major subjects may participate in the RGJ
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| program as co-advisors or collaborators. It is quite feasible that the processes will eventually lead to meaningful
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| exchanges of faculty and students, and the long-term goal of forging partnerships for research activities - the basic
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| objectives of most academic co-operation Agreements and MOU's made between Thai and foreign universities.
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| ีHence it may be of significant mutual advantages for university administrators and International Office directors to
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| give due attention to the RGJ program and to include it in their academic co-operation programs. needed for newly |
| established universities and to replace retiring professors presently at the rate of 300 per year. Lacking the |
| necessary support, over 150 Ph.D. programs in Thai universities have been producing only 100 graduates per year. |
| Previous attempts to solve the problem by giving scholarships for studying abroad had been hampered by the |
| present economic crisis. Hence, the country is very much in need of a program to produce |
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