Mission of the Government Science and Technology Scholarship Department
1. Scholarship Allocations for different types of scholarships such as General Scholarships (for both high school students and university graduates), and Government Human Capacity Development Scholarships (for international and domestic study programs), and for various organizations such as public universities, agencies under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research, and Innovation (MHESI), the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), and other agencies related to science and technology.
2. Budgeting such as annual operating budget requests to MHESI for distributions to the Office of the Civil Service Commission (OCSC) for international scholarships as well as NSTDA for domestic scholarships, 3-month budget expenditure reports, updating scholar expenditure rate adjustments by the OCSC to maintain yearly sufficient scholarship expenditures, and managing funds to scholars studying at Thai universities.
3. Competitive Scholarship Examinations and Selections for General Scholarships and Government Human Capacity Development Scholarships by carrying out MHESI rules and regulations.
4. Coordinating Scholarship Contract Signing and Demanding Contract Breaking Compensation such as transferring the power of attorney to sign contracts from MHESI to scholarship receiving agencies, sending letters to receiving agencies to sign scholarship contracts, guarantee contracts, and other contracts with scholars, updating expenditures with the OCSC for scholars who partially use private funds towards the end of their studies, calculating scholarship contract breaking fees, sending contract breaking notice letters to scholars, brokering with receiving agencies to collect compensating fees, and coordinating contract breaking cases with the Office of the Attorney General.
5. Managing Scholarship Database such as inputting and updating database of existing and new scholars, publishing reports of the scholarship program, sending scholarship program information to related organizations, maintaining the government science and technology scholarship website, as well as evaluating the scholarship program outcome by tracking outputs from graduated and working scholars.
6. Taking Care of Studying International and Domestic Scholars such as organizing, in coordination with the OCSC, orientation events for new scholars, giving counsels to scholars before and during their studies abroad or domestically, coordinating with the OCSC and receiving agencies in adjusting scholarship details, following up studying scholars with their pending study reports, accepting repots for duty of graduated scholars, coordinating contacts between scholars and receiving agencies, and processing requests in changing affiliated agencies for scholars.