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“Times Higher Education”, a leading world university ranking institution in England or“THE” has made an announcement just recently of THE Impact Ranking 2022 of universities that carry out missions for the society. This year, it is something to be proud of that the overall score of Khon Kaen University is higher than last year, being ranked at 101-200 orders of the world and the third in Thailand. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) score of KKU this year reaches a place out of the world 100 institutions in 3 aspects as follows:
SDG 1: No poverty – elimination of poverty in all aspects and in all areas – KKU is ranked the world’s 22nd place and the first in Thailand.
SDG 2: Zero hunger – promotion of food security, upgrading of nutritional level, and promotion of sustainable agriculture – KKU is ranked the 21st of the world and the first in Thailand.
SDG 5: Gender equality – supporting equality of genders and promotion of strength among women and children – KKU is ranked the 23rd of the world and the second in Thailand.
Asst. Prof. Tala Thammaroj, M.D., Vice President for Administration of Khon Kaen University explained the ranking this year that Times Higher Education is one of the world’s leading university ranking institution. It uses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations as the guidelines for the ranking as the SDGs are the basis applied by the governmental and private sectors in working towards social sustainability. This year, the overall score of Khon Kaen University is at the third rank of the country. Therefore, it is something for KKU to be proud of. Besides the University Council’s policy in sustainable development goal, Khon Kaen University also holds the value of “Social Devotion”.
“Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of UN consists of 17 SDGs. In 2021, Khon Kaen University submitted 8 SDGs. In 2022, we submitted 10 SDGs, of which 3 SDGs were outstanding and scored highly. These were SDG 1: No Poverty, with the target in eliminating poverty in all aspects and all areas. KKU has submitted this goal for many years, and was ranked as outstanding nearly every year. There have been many projects such as the poverty mitigation project, the solution project for occupational problems in the areas, the income increasing project, or the product development project. During the past two years, KKU has been supported by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation for U2T project, which aims at building jobs and incomes to the community. Even though there is the problem from the spread of Covid, we did enter the areas to help the community. There was systematic data collection, under this project, as well as outstanding research work that supports the community and makes the score in this category among the tops of the world and the first in the country.”
Source :https://www.kku.ac.th/13024
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