Innovative Journal of Business and Management

Supachok Wiriyacosol, Hatairat Lertjanyakit*

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This paper discusses the flow of international students in higher education to five most popular English-speaking countries i.e. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, the US and also Thailand which is included as a typical ASEAN source as well as destination of international students. The possible effects of the new UK student visa rule, aiming to reduce student visa by 25% starting April 2011 are studied. A source-destination student flow model is developed based on secondary data to explain the extent of the change in student enrolment in higher education due to the UK student visa reduction. A questionnaire interview was carried out on stakeholders in student flow from Thailand to the UK including education service agents, higher education institutes representatives from the UK, and prospective Thai students seeking for education in the UK. These stakeholders felt neutral about the overpopulation of international students in the UK and the need to reduce the number of student visa. They, however, realized that the student visa cut was inevitable and they have to find strategies to co33.3pe with this visa cut. The majority of 66.7% of the education service agents will maintain the present level of effort in recruiting Thai students for the UK while 33.3% adopt the wait and see attitude and none will “increase the effort” in student recruitment for the UK. 50% of the higher education institutes in the UK consider both the “maintain the present effort” while another 50% adopt a “wait and see” policy and none will “increase the effort” for student recruitment. As for the prospective students, the majority of 83.3% adopt a “look elsewhere” for education destinations while a minority of 16.7% will “maintain the present effort” in trying to find a seat in the higher education institutes in the UK, and none will “increase the effort” in trying to get education in the UK. Most of the stakeholders agree that there is an opportunity for the growth of international education in Thailand which can accept students from ASEAN countries. However, the improvement of quality and the reduction of cost may need to be considered. The problem of low English skills in Thai students seems to be a major obstacle to international education in Thailand which uses English as the international language. The problem about low English skills of Thai students needs to be solved.

Ravindra Uttamrao Kanthe, Rajesh Kanthe*

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The paper focus on the forces that drive Hr Practitioners to implement Practices which were missing in small towns Industries and the difficulties they facing implementing HR practices. Human resource management refers to the practices and policies needed to carry out the personnel aspects of management..A commitment HRM package includes different practices such as training, sharing information, employment protection, performance based reward, employee participation, and ensuring employees’ well-being. If every manager is good at managing HR along can avoid Recruiting the wrong employee, employee turnover, finding employees with poor performance. Poor time management Practices, dissatisfied employees. Absence of job related training which will eventually undermine the department's usefulness. special treatment and discrimination at the cost of organizational effectiveness. currently human resources occupy, more than ever, the core point of all economic activities. It is disturbing time for all those organizations that wish to be successful in markets to equip and implement preferred change in their existing human resource management practices and force their human resources along with the other resources. Also to become more flexible and innovative organizations require different ways of attracting, retaining and encouraging employees in study area. This paper goes some way towards critically examining certain hr realities in small scale firms.