The purposes of this research were to explore 1) the characteristics of successful entrepreneur: case study of Pailin Couture and 2) the factors affecting of self- employed of students who study major in fashion clothing and textiles design faculty of home economics technology at RMUTP. Using mixed method research and divide the data into 2 parts: 1) collected data from the entrepreneur as a key informant by using structure interviews and analyze data by content analysis and 2) collected data from students whose are selected using purposive sampling technique using questionnaire and data was analyzed using frequency percentage mean and standard deviation. The finding was concluded as follows: Characteristics of successful entrepreneur consist of: 1) inspiration from clearly know themselves and led to career 2) have experience or preparation about finding a place to study work-in-study finding a team coaching and channel expansion 3) working approached were to maintain harmony conflict reduction and do not use the mood to work 4) problem solving solution was to find the cause of the problem and consciousness in solving problems 5) core concept in occupational was takes a shorter time to learn but take it to career quickly and have creative development 6) category of products or services was variety of clothing styles 7) recruitment must choose who had the knowledge and ability in work and 8) recommendations for the couture entrepreneur should have knowledge and skills such as product planning team building marketing plan and target group of business. The factors affecting of self-employed of students found that: expectations of parents after graduation was self-employed. Individual factors toward to self-employed were love to work independent interesting in self-employment and love to learn more. Job factors toward to highly self-employed were individual challenge extremely in use ability and interpersonal relation.

The survey research aimed to: 1) study the behaviors of self-directed learning; 2) compare levels of self-directed learning behaviors which is classified by personal status; and 3) study guidelines for self-directed learning. The subject obtained through stratified random sampling consisted of 319 first-fourth year undergraduates of the Faculty of Home Economics Technology Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The research tool was a questionnaire. The frequency percentage mean standard deviation t-test and ANOVA were used for data analysis and hypothesis testing. The results were as follows: 1. The overall level of students’ behaviors for self-directed learning was high (X = 3.74; S.D.= 0.74) that were self-evaluation competency (X = 3.89; S.D.= 0.74) self-management competency (X = 3.75; S.D.=0.76) self-learning competency (X = 3.74; S.D.=0.70) self-searching competency (X = 3.72; S.D.=0.72) and characteristics of self-directed learners (X = 3.59; S.D.=0.77) respectively. 2. There was no difference of self-directed learning behaviors when genders and educational levels were considered. In contrast there were statistically significant difference at 0.05 when academic performance was considered. 3. The overall level of students’ opinions on guidelines for self-directed learning was high (X = 3.51;S.D.= 0.85) self-directed was academic matter (X = 3.74; S.D.=0.76) physical matter (X = 3.41 ; S.D.=0.93) management (X = 3.40; S.D.=0.87) respectively.

The survey research aimed to: 1) study the levels of self-development needs in preparation to enter AEC; 2) make a comparison of the students’ needs levels in aspects of personal data; and 3) propose appropriate forms of activities to be used in the development. The subject obtained through stratified random sampling consisted of 321 first-fourth year undergraduates of the Faculty of the Home Economic Technology Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The tool was a questionnaire. To analyse data the frequency percentage mean standard deviation t- test and ANOVA were used. The results were as follows: 1) The overall level of self-development needs was high ( X = 3.75). The needs for selfdevelopment in line with the Thai Qualifications Framework for Higher Education were high ( = 3.89). Moreover the level of needs conforming to Thai Graduate Preferable Qualifications for the ASEAN Community was moderate ( X = 3.46). 2) There was no statistically significant difference ( p<0.05) of the self-development needs level when genders educational levels or academic performances were considered 3) As for the activities it was rated best to use training for the development of cognitive skills numerical analysis communication and information technology skills domain of psychomotor skills and knowledge on ASEAN Community rules and regulations; lecturing for knowledge on ASEAN Community rules and regulations; study touring for knowledge development; camping for ethics and moral interpersonal skills responsibility and language skills; and student inter institutional exchanging for neighbouring countries knowledge development.

The purposes of this research are to study: 1) understanding of water and electricity saving 2) water and electricity consumption behavior 3) to compare water and electricity consumption behavior classified by personal characteristics of the students Faculty of Home Economics Technology Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. This research was descriptive research. The sample group was specified to be 325 people by stratified sampling. The reliability of this questionnaire is 0.87. Statistics used was descriptive and inferential statistics. The research result revealed that: 1) The overall of understanding and knowledge regarding electricity saving of the students is in the moderate level. 2) The overall of water and electricity consumption behavior of the students is in the moderate level. 3) The comparison of behavior of water and electricity consumption specified according to personal characteristics could be summarized that the students in different genders classes and majors had identical water consumption behavior and the students in different genders and classes had identical electricity consumption behavior. On the other hand the students having different majors had statistically different electricity consumption behavior at 0.05.