Annex 4

FORM FOR RECOMMENDATION REFERENCE

Name of recommender

Position

Affiliation

To: The Secretary-General of the .......... National Commission for..........

It is very much pleasure to write this letter in supporting Ms........................, a

young lecturer in the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Naresuan
University. The university has served for higher education in the lower north region of
Thailand, which includes nine provinces. The region is full of natural resources
covering conserved national parks, including one of the world heritages, wildlife
sanctuary, waterfalls, forests, and mountains. It is in the close proximity to Myanmar,
Lao, and China. Established in 1993, the department is among Thai youngest
academic institutes for Microbiology that has produced around 200 graduates in
Microbiology. Biotechnology is essential and valuable branch of studies, however, the
department expertise in the field remains to be developed.

Ms...........who had studied this field for her master degree from..... University,
Thailand, has been engaged in teaching in the department since graduation. To
revitalize and strengthen her research skill enough for her to be able to create her own
research studies in the future, a postgraduate training course would be taken. She is
self-motivated and full of inspiration. She is also a kind of persons that everyone
would enjoy to work with, as she is sociably friendly and highly responsible. As the
chief of the department and also her colleague for almost 4 years, I hence firmly
believe that she would do very well in any training laboratory settling and in the
course she is applying.

The course will be very fruitful and certainly make a good impact not only to
herself and her students, but also the regional community in general. She will be a
potential human resource who is capable of transferring the knowledge and applying it
to transform the natural resources into the benefit of mankind. I strongly believe that
the state-of-the-art in the field will improve the microeconomic and consequently
standard of living of the village people as we have seen it in the use of microorganisms
in the fermented food in the one-tambol-one-product (OTOP) project.

Date :.............June 30, 2004....................

Signature :...............................................