Celebration of Success in Delivering Pearson’s BTEC Level 3-5 in Thailand
What happened during this celebration?
On 22nd November 2024, The Newton Group hosted the warmhearted “Celebration of Success in Delivering BTEC Level 3-5,” event here on our premises. Our students from Newton Business School, The Apprentice Business School and Open School joined together for this special occasion celebrating goodness and the launch of NewEd BTEC Level 3 – now accredited by Thailand’s Central Admission System (TCAS) and allowing students to use BTEC Level 3 as an equivalent to Thai M.6 and A-Level qualifications to apply to over 80 universities – alongside our current BTEC Level 4 and 5.
This momentous function was opened by the Chairman of The Newton Group and Former Minister of Education of Thailand, Dr Teerakiat Jareonsettasin.
Who joined us?
We were also honoured by the presence of Mr. Ben Morley – Commercial Counsellor and Country Director at the Department for Business and Trade, British Embassy Bangkok who was the British government representative and other distinguished guests, including:
- Ms Annabel Lawday, Strategic Lead at Pearson
- Ms Megan Cullen, Thailand Sales Manager at Pearson
- Mr Home Cholpilaiponk, Recruitment and Development Manager at the University of Essex, UK
- Mr Gareth Newman, Market Development Manager at British Council
- Mr Ben Morley and Ms Annabel Lawday delivered remarks to our attentive student audience on British education – it was a true privilege for our students to hear from them.
Newton supervisors and students were joined by the Newton Executive team for this special occasion:
- Dr Teerakiat Jareonsettasin, Chairman of The Newton Group
- Thanin Au-Aphithorn, CEO of The Newton Group
- Dr Dhammasak Ua-Apithorn, School Director of The Newton Sixth Form and COO
- Asa Chotchakornpant, Executive Director for External Affairs
- Plt. Off. Dhanuphon Boriboonsub, Executive Director of Operations
- Narisa Hanakazi, School co-Director of Newton Junior
- Taphatcha Wongasit, School co-Director of Newton Junior
- Akarat Hanmatheekuna, School Director of The Apprentice Business School
- Mr Jason Beilby, Newton Business School Executive
- Apitha Wonlopsiri, School Director of Open School
- Ninart Boonpothong, Open School Executive
- Mr James Winters, Open School Academic Supervisor
Why is this so important and significant?
Moving forward, the future looks bright from this motivating gathering, as our students are benefiting from a challenging and dynamic British curriculum and many of our Graduates have already proceeded to study at our progression partner universities in England – University of Essex, Anglia Ruskin University and Oxford Brookes University.
This event is significant because The Newton Group is currently the largest provider of the UK’s Pearson BTEC curriculum in Thailand! A wonderful achievement.
BTEC Higher Nationals – such as the BTEC Higher National Diploma in Business delivered at Newton Business School – are internationally recognised Higher Education qualifications at Level 4 and 5 which are the equivalent to the first and second years of a university degree.
Date: 9th December 2024
Written by Mr Jason Beilby, Executive at Newton Business School
Edited by Fah, Communication Manager
