Thailand has adopted a new economic model, “Thailand 4.0”, with a focus on new S-curve industries and the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) to accelerate investment and economic growth in order to become a high-income economy by 2037.
However, Thailand needs to build a high-quality workforce to realise the plan. The Thai government promotes the idea of "vocation creates the nation" under the EEC Development Plan as part of “Thailand 4.0” to increase manpower with vocational qualifications in the industrial sector. The EEC Office estimates that more than 475,000 skilled workers would be needed for the targeted industries, mostly in digital, logistics and smart electronics, during
2019-2023. Among them, there are 53.2 per cent of vocational education-level workers and 46.8 per cent of higher education-level workers.
