The study of parents' demands and affecting marketing factors in establishing a basic education school under the supervision of Walailak universit (WU), Nakhon Si Thammarat
Abstract:
This Independent Study investigated parents personal factors and demands
as well as identified significant marketing factors that influenced the basic education
school establishment under the supervision of Walailak University. Moreover, it also
studied the correlation between parents personal factors and marketing factors that
would influence the school selection. Questionnaires, the data collecting tool, were
distributed to 400 parents at Thasala and Muang in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.
The study results showed that a high number of parents (87.25%) agree with
the new school establishment, seeing that the new basic education school would
enhance their childrens education opportunities (55.59%) and that WU has a high
potential to effectively run the school (24.07%). Regarding their demands, they wanted a
school at the primary (37.22%) and the secondary level (42.23%). The school was
expected to run the following programs: special program for science, math and
intensive foreign language program (27.28%) an English Program (27.31%) and
ordinary program (24.09%). 69.05% of the parents showed their interests in sending
their children to the new school.
In general, the parents placed a very high value (at the average level of
4.12) with regards to the following marketing factors: education personnel (4.65),
physical evidence (4.21), curriculum (4.13), process (4.12), productivity and quality
(4.12), educational fees (3.96), communication (3.94) and student admission (3.81).
Finally, it was also found that there was a correlation between parents
background variables (gender, age, monthly income, number of their school age
children) and the demands with regards to the establishment of the school.
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