AIT’s 116th Graduation Ceremony on January 21, 2012 took on special significance as three new graduates became the first ever recipients of the dual master’s degree awarded from AIT and Polytech’Nice, France.
Recently, as prompted by the President of the AIT Alumni Association –Thailand Chapter, Mr. Thanin Bumrungsap, there have been a series of media articles posted on the Thai-language news website Matichon ONLINE, which are highly accusatory in nature and attack AIT’s effort to institute a new Charter, and thereby become a legal intergovernmental international organization.
AIT Board of Trustees Chairman Dr. Tej Bunnag has explained the relevance of the new AIT Charter and the Institute’s exploration of public-private partnership (PPP) funding models to Thai newspaper Matichon.
AIT President Prof. Said Irandoust and Prof. Asit K. Biswas, founder of the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico, and member of the International Advisory Board, AIT, reflect on lessons learned from the recent flood in Thailand, as published by the English-language newspaper The Nation.
AIT President Prof. Said Irandoust has responded to a negative campaign against the new AIT Charter by AIT Alumni Association (AITAA)-Thailand Chapter President Mr. Thanin Bumrungsap.
Read the president’s open letter of 24 January 2012, below.
Three months to the day its campus was completely flooded, forcing the large-scale evacuation of all students, faculty, staff and residents, the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) celebrated its 116th Graduation Ceremony on 21 January 2012.
The latest report of the AIT Campus Rehabilitation Committee chaired by Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai has been released. Click below for details of progress on AIT’s campus rehabilitation work as of January 18, 2012.
116th graduation of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) will be held on 21 January 2012 from 9-12.00 hours at the 1st Floor, Grand Hall of the Thailand Science Park Convention Center (TSPCC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA). Ms. Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction shall deliver the graduation address.
The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has always been in the business of educating professionals who positively impact Asia and the wider world. On 19 January 2012 the institute continued this tradition by spearheading a unique program focused on the fast growing ‘Third Sector’ marketplace.