Academic service Readiness of the Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, Burapha University towards the development of food processing business to support the entry into the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC)
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to obtain information on the guidelines for providing academic service in various fields in the part of service applicant and service provider 2) to study the requirement of service applicants for academic services in various fields 3) to develop guidelines or enhance academic service readiness of the Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, Burapha University that meet the requirement of the service applicant. The sample group used in this research consisted of 10 service applicants and service providers. The research instrument was used for collecting data was interview form. The statistic used in data analysis was percentage. The results revealed that:
1) Able to set guidelines for providing academic services in respect of analytical services and instrument services should be allocated budget for purchasing instrument that support a variety of services and there are personnel or institution that provide analytical services directly to increase service efficiency. In terms of providing academic consulting services, there should be continuous coordination with other institution in case the service applicant needs additional knowledge in other areas.
2) The study of the requirement of the service applicants for academic services in 2014-2020, it was found the types of service provider with the highest number of requests for services were entrepreneur/small and medium enterprises (SME)/general person (35.71%) factories/private organization (32.14%) and government institution/state enterprises/university (32.14%), respectively. The types of items with the highest number of requests for services were analytical services (46.15%), followed by academic consulting services (24.85%), instrument services (21.30%), and laboratory services and prepare samples (7.69%), respectively.
3) Developing guidelines or enhancing the readiness of academic service, the results was found that should develop or improve management, such as allocating budgets for purchasing new instrument to replace the old instrument or covering analytical items that responds to current food production technology instrument efficiency checking, add new analytical services, increase person who work for the analytical service directly, to set up one stop service or integration of relevant institution within the university to link information and coordination, service provider should have additional knowledge enhancement in other areas and public relation of service information that can be easily accessed.
At present, the academic services of Department of Food Science has been provided according to existing instrument and personnel potential and has focused on develop and improve efficiency and service quality to be appropriate to meet the requirement of the service applicant at all times. However, there is still availability of academic services to applicants both in terms of its location in the eastern region to accommodate service applicants who wish to develop food processing businesses and to develop the management of this academic service project in response to Burapha University's policy to enhance cooperation for development of food processing business to support the entry into the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).