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It is increasingly alarming, the rate at which INCIDENCES of THEFT in AIT campus inundates the media. AIT has been known for morals, integrity and academic excellence. Her reputation is attested to by the caliber of successful and high positions of AIT Alumni in their various fields  of endeavor.

 

It is appalling, to say the least, how the name of this great institution that has produced highly credible Captains of industries, Engineers, Administrators of high repute to mention just a few; could be dragged into the mud by a few who parade themselves as either students or workers or whatever engagement they have in AIT.

 

Decency will demand that whatsoever is worth preserving should be preserved. Image  of AIT and Stakeholders - Students, Staffers and the Community as a whole - deserve to be preserved.

 

Just a moment, Why should others take delight in causing others to gnash teeth? Hurting , creating a psychological stress and distressing others? These manifest in losses such as bicycles, purses and its content or in part, misplaced items never recovered.

 

In a campus and environment such as ours,the gospel of "ONE AIT FOR ALL" should have taken precedence, where we are lovers of each other. and are particular about our collective well being. One wonders if those that perpetrate these heinous acts read mails  on these and still carry their conscience along.

 

It is high time image tarnishing attitude and behavior stops. The Security operatives should leave up to this challenge and should be sincere. Any person caught in the act of stealing or pilfering should be grilled, investigated and be made to face the law. If found guilty, punished in accordance with the law. Full publicity should be given. This measure may serve as deterrent to others.

 

We deserve a Clean, Responsible Campus and Environment where community members' property are secured. Our energy should be directed at containing or mitigating the natural hazards such as mosquitoes, rodents, epileptic low water pressure, internet pa lava in the dorms, street lights and stray dog and not THEFTS. 

 

As communicated by INWANG AKPAN UDO, CAMPUS and ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE

Mr. Benjamin Gargabite (HSD 1986) has passed away

Dear Fellow Alumni,

 

We are really saddened to hear the news of the passing away of Mr. Benjamin Gargabite (HSD 1986). He served our Alma Mater with all his heart and his contribution to the institute is immeasurable.

 

On behalf of the members and officers of the AITAA Mother and National Chapters, I wish to express our heartfelt condolences to Khun Chulee and family, and also to all relatives and friends of Khun Benjie. He was truly a great loss to all of us.

 

We have learned that the religious services started last night, and there will be mass tonight and tomorrow from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at Ruamrudee Chapel. On Thursday, his remains will be brought back to the Philippines for the burial.

Thai Students get special Scholarship to study at AIT - fill in the available RTG scholarships and fellowships.

The 9th AIT-RTG Cooperation Plan covers 5 years for the period from 2010 to 2014 with a total budget of 653.21 million Baht. Under this Plan, although the budget for AIT in FY 2012 is 139.55 mB, only 61.32 mB was submitted for the approval of the Thai Parliament. Based on this reduced budget, the first installment of 13.40 mB was released to AIT on 24 January 2012. However OHEC informed that the remaining portion of 47.92 mB has been suspended as the budget was committed for AIT under the original Charter, but not for the new AIT under the new Charter declared by AIT since 30 January 2012. As you know, after a year of legal deadlock, AIT's Board of Trustees has resumed its function under the original charter on 12 December 2012. 

 

On 7 June 2013, Acting President accompanied by President of AITAA visited the Budget Bureau to seek their advice on how to reconcile and resume the 9th RTG-AIT Cooperation Plan. On the remaining budget of 47.92 mB, AIT was assured that this amount is specifically earmarked for AIT and will be released to AIT in due time. As for the use of this budget, the Budget Bureau advised that AIT should take this opportunity to change its practice. Instead of allocating the budget covering the entire period of scholarships that last beyond the budget year, the budget received for each fiscal year should be used up for that specific year. Thus the budget should cover (1) ongoing students and (2) newly admitted students in the same year. AIT agrees to follow the advice and will implement the budget accordingly.

 

On Monday 17 June 2013, Acting President accompanied by the Chairman of the Executive Committee, Professor Emeritus Dr. Sahas Banditkul, and Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut, Acting Vice President for Resource Development, visited the Office of the Higher Education Commission,(OHEC) to discuss the issue on the RTG budget (see attached photo). AIT delegate led by its new Ex-Com Chair were warmly welcomed by OHEC Deputy Director-General Dr. Kamjorn Tatiyakawee.  Regarding the frozen budget of 2012, Dr Kamjorn confirmed that OHEC will release the 47.92 million Baht soon. In addition, as a token of appreciation to the leading role of Ex-Com Chair, a former Deputy Prime Minister, at AIT, OHEC will add to this frozen budget an additional 25 million Baht, which can be allocated as RTG Fellowships. Thus with the availability of this 72.95 million Baht to be used in one calendar year, we must now work harder to attract more number of applications to use the King's and Queen's Scholarships, GMS Scholarships and RTG Fellowships. Up to now, the number of qualified applicants in the stock is not enough to fill all the available full scholarships.

 

Without a direct-sale approach that we used in 2007, it is rather difficult to attract, at this late state, Thai students with GPA equal or higher than 3.5. If any field can get students of this caliber, we can guarantee that these students will be offered at least 48 credits. And for this year, students with GPA > 3.0 from first-tier ranked public universities (e.g. Chula, Mahidol, Chiang Mai, TU, KMUTT, KMITL, Kasetsart, Khon Kaen, Prince Songkla University) may be offered full scholarships, subjected to the approval of OHEC. 

 

So I would like to encourage all faculty members and staff to help approach top Thai students to apply to AIT in your field, even beyond the deadline of 15 June 2013. We will give a special consideration to the late applicants solicited by you. Let me know if you need any support from the Central Administration to go out and recruit such students.

 

Email sent to AIT's stakeholders by Acting Pres Worsak

Revised Budget 2013 Receive Board's Approval

Dear Colleagues

 

After almost 3 months of hard work by the Financial Health and Budget Review Task Force (FRTF), finally the revised 2013 budget has received approval from the Board of Trustees on 20 June 2013.

By the instruction of the Ex-Com, the Task Force has to make three rounds of budget cut to meet the prescribed target, i.e., the total expenditure budget combining all accounts in Funds 10, 21 and 24 must be less than the corresponding actual expense (671.21 million Baht) of the previous year 2012. The Task Force reached the target by exploiting the following cost savings:

 

(1) Infrastructure and IT services (saving = -30.82 million Baht)

(2) Administrative Units (saving = 26.65 million Baht)

(3) Discontinuation of Outreach Centers (saving = -11.41 million Baht)

(4) Roll-back of Salary Increments (saving = -5.45 million Baht)

Total saving = -74.33 million Baht

 

On the other hand, the Task Force has recommended additional budget for the following two items:

(1) Online Database of the Library (+8.46 million Baht)

(2) Electricity Budget due to the Rate Increase (+11.70 million Baht)

Total increase = +20.16 million Baht

Thus, the net saving = -54.17 million Baht

Finally, the total expenditure budget of 2013 is reduced from 724.90 down to 670.73 million Baht, slightly less than the actual expenditure of 671.21 million Baht in 2012.

On the roll-back of salary increments, the Board of Trustees have approved the following guidelines, which will be implemented immediately by HRO:

ROLL-BACK OF SALARY INCREMENT GUIDELINES AS APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ON 20 JUNE 2013
(All provisions below only apply to employees with salary above 30,000 B per month)
Guidelines	Description	Action	No. of Cases
Provision 1	Faculty Reclassification	Defer reclassification effectively June 1, 2013, until AIT regains financial health	44
Provision 2	2012 and 2013 Salary Increase in Violation of P & P on Employment of Staff: General Work Regulations (PA-1-3-3-IV.c.1.g)	Retraction of Increment retroactively and salaries restored to the level prior to date of violation	34
Provision 3	Employees receiving 2013 approved salary merit increase, despite poor 2012 financial performance of AIT.	Increment to be retracted to 0% retroactively and salaries restored to date before increase.	38
Provision 4	Salary increment due to rank promotion or position change.	No retraction to be made	14
Special Case	Correction of Professorial Promotion date, based on the official approval by the Board of Trustees	Re-compute salary based on the new date of BOT approval	2
		Total Cases Affected	118

 

  

Notes:

 

(1) Although there was a suggestion to implement an involuntary 10% cut in the basic salaries across the board, it is not adopted.

(2) Certain number of raises during 2012 and 2013 were not in compliance with the AIT's P&P. They will be nullified. This affects 34 cases of staff who were given salary increases 2 years in a row. The PA-1-3-3-IV.c.1.g states that staff salary increase cannot be given within a span of less than 2 calendar years.

(3) We need the understanding of all faculty colleagues as the faculty reclassification that was implemented earlier in 2013 has to be suspended until AIT recovers from this financial crisis.

(4) Since AIT performed rather dismally in 2012 (making a deficit of 201 million Baht), it is rather unreasonable for any employee to be awarded a salary increase in 2013. Thus, all salary increments in 2013 will be rolled back to 0%.

(5) The Task Force agreed not to apply the cut to any employee under 30K monthly salary.

At the end, we must realize that budget cut alone will not save AIT. AIT needs the cooperation of all employees to generate more incomes. I have one good news to report. Thanks to the presence of the former Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Sahas Bunditkul, in our visit to the Office of Higher Education Commission (OHEC), AIT has been offered an additional budget of 25 million Baht as a token of appreciation from OHEC on top of our frozen budget of 47 million Baht. So for this August intake, we have 72 million Baht.

With this email, aside from the White Paper on AIT Financial Health distributed earlier, I am pleased to attach 2 files, a Report on Revised Budget 2013 and my powerpoint presentation to the Board of Trustees on 20 June 2012.

With kind regards,

Worsak

 

Get New AIT fellowship for 2013 Enrollment

Good news for students waiting to apply for Master's and Bachelor's degree in reputed universities in ASIA. Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) provides you the platform you just needed it.  Now with many more fellowship opportunities for 2013 August semester.

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand is offering applicants to its Master and Doctoral degree programs an opportunity to qualify for generous academic fellowships. A large number of no-bond AIT Fellowships are available for students applying for postgraduate programs offered at AIT's School of Engineering and Technology (SET); School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD); and School of Management (SOM). As Asia's leading international higher learning institute, the AIT Fellowships are intended to increase the number of skilled international scientists, engineers and managers required to meet the future challenges of the emerging Asian Economic Community region and beyond.

 

Eligibility requirements to be considered for AIT Fellowships

 

·        Students of all nationalities are eligible.

·        Attain a TOEFL score of 500 or equivalent.

·        Priority is given to Master degree applicants.

·        A four-year Bachelor degree from a recognized university is required.

·        Applicants to MBA programs require a minimum of one-year's relevant work experience.

 

AIT FELLOWSHIPS

 

·        Full Study Cost Fellowships (752,000 Baht Award). This fellowship covers the entire study cost of a Master program. Requirement: Cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher.

·        75% Study Cost Fellowships (564,000 Baht Award). Recipients pay study cost of one semester, or 188,000 Baht. Requirement: Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.

·        50% Study Cost Fellowships (376,000 Baht Award). Recipients pay study cost of twosemesters, or 376,000 Baht. Requirement: Cumulative GPA of 2.75 or higher.

·        Fellowships for Doctoral applicants vary depending on their academic credentials. Normally, eligible applicants should have attained a Cumulative GPA of 3.5 in their Master program and 3.0 in their Undergraduate program.

 

 

*REVISED:Fellowships cover tuition, but do not cover registration fees, accommodation fees or living expenses.

 

For more information please visit Admissions Website. Interested applicants may apply here or contact the AIT Admissions Office at Tel: 02-524 5032, 02-524 5033 E-mail admissions@ait.asia

 

Application Deadline: 15 June 2013.

Procedure for obtaining revised degree certificates of AIT

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​his is how to get revised degree certificates of AIT 2013

1. The revised valid degree certificates for graduates of 1 June 2012 and 6 August 2012 will be available at Student Office from 3 June 2013 onwards.

2. The original copy of the invalid certificate must be returned first to Registry before revised valid certificate can be issued. The certificate can be returned in person or through mail to:

Registry, Student Office
Asian Institute of Technology
P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang
Pathumthani 12120
Thailand

3. Certified true copies of the invalid degree certificates can be exchanged for certified true copies of the valid certificate without any fee. If additional copies are needed, please fill up the attached form. AIT will not charge for regular mailing cost but will charge for courier service (DHL).

4. Original and certified true copies can be claimed in person from Student Office or through postal mailing. Aside from cheque and credit card payment options for additional requests of certified true copies, payment via ATM can be made to AIT SCB account with the following details:

Name of Account: ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Account No.: 359-3-00001-2
Bank Name/Address: Siam Commercial Bank PCL, 58 Moo 9, Km. 42, Paholyothin Highway, Klong Nueng, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand.
Swift Code: SICOTHBK

5. Processing will take 3 working days from the date of request.

For further inquiry, please send email to registry@ait.ac.th.
Thank you.

The request form for obtaining the revised degree can be downloaded from these links:

Link for alumni in Thailand: 

http://www.ait.ac.th/news-and-events/2013/announcements/Request.Thai.xls

 Link for overseas alumni: 

http://www.ait.ac.th/news-and-events/2013/announcements/Request.Overseas.xls/​