This study employs a mixed method research which is a combination of quantitative and qualitative measures to investigate situation and demand in relation to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) training of the elderly in Bangkok. For quantitative method questionnaires are used to obtain information from a total of 355 senior citizens. These data are examined and evaluated by way of descriptive statistical analysis involving frequency percentage mean and standard deviation with t-test and a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). For qualitative method in-depth interviews of 10 coordinators of the Association for the Elderly are undertaken and a focus group of 10 representatives of the Association for the Elderly is employed. The results show that a majority of the elderly do not have a computer (56.3%) or experience of using ICT (33.8%) but indicate demand for ICT training (59.4%) with regard to reading information and news and communicating by way of the internet. In detail there is demand for free training courses dealing with computer use and the internet as well as searching queries convenience of travel to training centres and trainers who understand the capability of the elderly. Comparison by income shows that the elderly whose average monthly income is more than 30000 bahts pay more attention to training courses and services travel convenience and trainers than do those on lower income. Furthermore the demand for training is higher for the elderly who have ICT experiences than for those with no experience. In conclusion the findings of this study suggest that policymakers should provide the elderly in Bangkok with public-access computers free internet connection availability of reduced-price computers and financial support for ICT training courses.

This research is to study the problems and barriers for cooperative education student trainee recruitment according to the work place’s concept the aspects of training management training format training students’ qualifications and training students’ knowledge. The population are owners of various workplaces who accept 180 fourth year undergraduate students in training. Questionnaires are used to collect data statistically analyzed by Percentage Mean and Standard Deviation. The findings of the research reveals problems and obstacles as follow : 1. For the training management aspect the workplaces are not able to cooperate with the university to set aims and prepare the students before training the workplaces do not recognize purposes of the university’s training course the suitable positions for the students are not provided by the workplaces. 2. For the training students’ qualifications the students are unlikely to make decision in their performances’ problem solving no self-confidence and carefulness in their performances. 3. For the training students’ knowledge the students are unable to analyze and plan their performances; they have not a good command of both written and spoken English and Thai. In addition they lack of vocational skills.

The purpose of this study was to study and compare knowledge and perspective of undergraduates towards personal financial management in 4 aspects: income spending saving and investment. The undergraduates were classified by gender academic years major subjects monthly income sources of income and parent’s occupation. The samples in this research were 1419 undergraduates. The study participates selected by stratified random sampling and simple random sampling. The 98 item questionnaires of rating scales and test was used as the research instrument. percentage mean standard deviation t - test for independent sample F – test Scheffe’s test and Pearson product-moment correlation analysis were statistical method to analyze data. The results were as follows: 1. Knowledge about personal financial management of undergraduates all aspects were in moderate levels that income was the highest while spending and saving was in the lowest rank. 2. Perspective about personal financial management of undergraduates all aspects were in moderate levels that income was the highest while saving and spending was in the lowest rank. 3. There was significant difference for knowledge about personal financial management of undergraduates at the 0.05 level among undergraduates in different gender different academic years different major subjects different monthly income different sources of income and different parent’s occupation. 4. There was significant difference for perspective about personal financial management of undergraduates at the 0.05 level among undergraduates in different gender different academic years different major subjects different monthly income different sources of income and different parent’s occupation. 5. Knowledge about personal financial management of students was positive correlate with perspective about personal financial management of students with statistically significant at 0.01 level.

The objective of this research is to propose a forecasting model for uncertain demand index data of steel. The forecasting model proposed by Yelland (2010) was modified by adjusting the prior distributions of some parameters in the model in order that it is suitable for the demand of steel in Thailand. The algorithms for model fitting were written in OpenBUGS. The proposed model was compared to a classical exponential smoothing model. The research found that the forecast errors from the proposed forecasting model were minimum.

H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn had graciously presided the opening of Phrom Mongkol and Mongkol Arpha Buildings at the Faculty of Business Administration Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon on March 25th 2013. In this great occasion the university has assigned the Institute of Research and Development a responsibility in holding an exhibition of academic research and innovative works of both academic staff and students under the title of “Rajamangala Phra Nakhon Academic Exhibition” in combination with other events. The Rajamangala Phra Nakhon Academic Exhibition held a total of 34 works divided into 2 sections: 1) 16 research works that received Gold Award from Thailand Research Expo 2012; and 2) 18 academic research and innovative works from various departments of the university. The H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn had kindly visited the exhibition area which brought immeasurable grace and the greatest of blessings to all administrators academic staff support staff and students of the university. We all had higher morale to produce research academic and innovative works with good quality to continuously develop our society.