NQF for Higher Education in Thailand has set basic academic qualifications for students in nine subjects .

The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for Higher Education in Thailand has set basic academic qualifications for students in nine subjects - computer, science, education, English, nursing, agribusiness, biological technology, service management and tourism.

Two new subjects - logistics and aviation management - would be added soon, secretarygeneral Krissanaphong Keeratikorn told a Bangkok meeting for 300 university lecturers and educators on the coming use of NQF in their institutions.

The NQF could almost guarantee employment for graduates from universities that used it, he said.

All state universities, colleges and Rajabhat universities would discuss the implementation of the NQF at a meeting on July 21 at Siam City Hotel in Bangkok.

Krissanaphong called on lecturers to not view the NQF as the commission's invention to intervene in their academic affairs.

"The NQF is a basic guideline for students to earn minimum qualifications in each subject they take," he said.

Today's labour market does not need graduates in great numbers, but in quality - those who could do their employers' work.

"The NQF would only improve educational standards and make directing goals for academic quality easier," he said.