There are folks within the sector who dedicate themselves to serving to college students to seek out nice locations to be taught internationally – Treenat Jaiyasarn takes this dedication to an entire new stage.
Working three core companies, Jaiyasarn oversees a number of IELTS preparation centres, IELTS testing amenities and likewise runs an company.
The company, WIN Education Group, affords Thai college students the possibility to use for universities primarily within the UK, but additionally affords US alternatives.
Westminster Worldwide Academy and Westminster College of English take the helm when it comes to IELTS preparation and testing – however that isn’t the place Jaiyasarn stops.
The latest enterprise is helping facilitation in partnerships between native universities in Thailand and UK establishments – one, which had its articulation signed in November, entails Chiang Mai College and the College of Leeds.
“Thailand runs a six yr medication program – so we add a grasp’s diploma within the fifth yr at Chiang Mai’s medical college and the College of Leeds,” Jaiyasarn explains.
“The coed will do 4 years in Thailand. After which they’ll go to Leeds medical college for one yr to get the grasp’s – then come again to Thailand to complete their medical yr.
“So upon commencement, college students can have the [qualification] from Chiang Mai College and an MSc in medication from the College of Leeds,” he continues.
Jaiyasarn’s many palms within the worldwide training sector in Thailand stem from his personal experiences. As a masters scholar, he studied within the UK on the College of Brighton. Having visited family members within the UK, upon his return to Thailand he determined to return to the UK to pursue his research.
“I favored it. After commencement, I stayed on for an additional yr and a half. So altogether, I lived there for 4 and a half years – fairly a superb, respectable time to get to grasp how the nation operates,” he remembers.
The articulation settlement Jaiyasarn helped facilitate is without doubt one of the first initiatives of its form he has taken on, so is presently a more moderen enterprise – however his main companies are presently in good condition, and proceed to develop.
“We are able to additionally see that enhance for masters worldwide markets sooner or later”
“In the meanwhile we’ve got 4 [IELTS] centres in Bangkok and one in Chiang Mai. We’re opening another in central Bangkok, which is able to then make it six altogether,” Jaiyasarn says.
“And other than instructing, we’re additionally an official IELTS Check Centre for British Council IELTS. So we ship educational instructing and we’re additionally on the take a look at level. So it’s not simply instructing; we’ve got a facility the place we’ve got the British Council are available and run the examination.”
The amenities additionally invigilate and register the exams – a brand new function that Jaiyasarn has launched within the final yr.
The work, Jaiyarsarn says, is just to satisfy the rising demand – one session of candidates is examined day by day, with as much as 22 candidates in every, and three classes are sometimes run on weekends.
“By means of that, we really can take a look at the odds of scholars taking educational applications, the place they go to review in worldwide applications in Thailand or in different nations exterior the UK – and the variety of college students doing UKVI. So we’ve got these statistics of the market demand specifically markets as properly, which is superb for us when it comes to information assortment,” he notes.
“Thus far for the IELTS preparation aspect [of the business], we have been 3,000 college students a yr learning with us in Thailand – so the demand is admittedly excessive.”
The College of Thailand has additionally taken on IELTS as a part of their necessities for worldwide applications and English-taught applications, Jaiyasarn is aware of that there’s an “astonishing” enhance in demand for undergraduate worldwide applications.
“We are able to additionally see that enhance for masters worldwide markets sooner or later – specifically, going outbound for greater training for masters. And, the proportion of these selecting IELTS to review in Thailand goes as much as virtually 50% of the market for the time being,” he says – one thing he hopes to capitalise on because the demand retains going up.
“In the meanwhile we’ve got 4 [IELTS] centres in Bangkok and one in Chiang Mai”
WIN Training Group, the company arm of the operation, can also be taking up heavy enlargement. Throughout Covid, Jaiyasarn opened new places of work in Taiwan, Bangladesh and Nigeria – and one other workplace will quickly be opening in Abuja, including to the workplace already arrange in Lagos.
This yr, the group has efficiently positioned practically 1,000 college students, however Jaiyasarn is already seeking to put that quantity over 1,500 in 2023.
Whereas training is his present main focus, he additionally runs companies inside Thailand in building, and inside design.
“I don’t know the way I do it, however it’s taking place!”
