(29-04-2013)
Research universities in Thailand are now facing budget cuts for the fiscal year of 2014. The proposed budget was dropped from 1 billion baht to 600 million baht. However, the Minister of Education said that the government was pleased to support any research useful for national development.
On 23 April, the Education Minister talked about the upcoming budget given to Thai research universities after their representatives met with him to discuss this. He said that, according to the government's continuous budget for 2010 - 2012 with a total amount of 5 billion baht to promote research at Thai universities and to develop Thai national research, over three billion baht had been approved. Now, there was around one billion baht left. The Ministry of Education has already proposed the budget for the next fiscal year of 2014 and 600 million baht had been already approved. So far, the overall budget for the Ministry in the next fiscal year of 2014 is 488,264,141,600 baht.
"I guarantee that the government is happy to support research useful for the economy and agriculture. That's why I asked Thai universities to formulate research proposals that will yield quick results for national development. They can present the proposals at the 2nd National Research University Summit from 7 to 8 May," said the Education Minister.
Assoc. Prof. M.D. Kamchorn Tatiyakawee, the Deputy Secretary General of the Higher Education Commission, said that many universities were disappointed that the 1 billion Baht had been cut because this might affect some ongoing research projects and might result in incomplete and non-practical research methodology in the future.
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