On November 14th, 2019, Assoc. Prof. Sittiwat Lertsiri, Dean of MUSC, presided over the opening ceremony of “MUSC Centre of Excellence in STEM Education” at Faculty of Science, Salaya Campus.
MUSC Centre of Excellence in STEM Education was established with the aim to promote STEM education that integrates knowledge from four fields: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in Thailand in order to increase STEM graduate that meet the demands of industry in 21st century.
To enhance STEM education, Mahidol University collaborates with 10 universities from Europe and Asia in “Euro-Asia Collaboration for Enhancing STEM Education (EASTEM)”, an Erasmus+ capacity building project (Key Action 2) running from 2019 – 2022. Sharing best practices and experiences among partners will further increase student-centered learning approaches in STEM education and increase the capacities of partner institutions to offer education focused on students’ needs and labour market requirements.
As part of EASTEM network to collaborate with foreign universities in order to enhance STEM education, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University hosted the WP2 meeting at Faculty of Science, Salaya campus during November 14 -16, 2019.
Participants from 4 countries gathered in Bangkok to continue and finalize their work on developing the development of the ToT course. (Work Package 2: Training lecturers in student-centered competence development.
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