二 泰国大学校长理事会
The Council of University President of Thailand (CUPT) was established with the collaboration of universities in order to help each other’s handling critical problems in those days. Currently, there are 27 universities/institutes. Originally, it is named as “Rectors Conference” and it was changed to “Council of University Presidents of Thailand” which is an independent organization founded under the collaboration of presidents of thai universities/higher education institutes. They mutually agreed upon the idea of meetings and sharing experiences and opinions among them and setting the CUPT to be a center of exchanging experiences and opinions, proposing initiative ideas about national higher education operations, and pushing forward those into reality.
According to the statement number 3 on the agreement of the meeting of university presidents in 1972, it reads, “the Council of University Presidents of Thailand (CUPT) would be the center to exchange opinions and to cooperate under common interest between universities/institutes, which were bound on this agreement”. The CUPT will NOT be a political organization. In September 1979 (the 6th meeting of 1979), the CUPT reviewed on the roles and reissued as follows:
The CUPT should be the place to provide collaboration and support universities development in many aspects but these would not overlap with the role of the Ministry of University Affairs (which now known as the Office of the Higher Education Commission – OHEC).
The CUPT should be a central organization of public universities in order to suggest and advise the Ministry of University Affairs and the government, including delivering related essential actions to the government in many aspects.
The CUPT must be an organization to set policy in the manner of actions or reflecting broad opinions in accord of beneficial issues or common problems among universities and offer suggestion to the government. While, issues that can be handled internally will be proceeded in collaborative among the network.
