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Tapee College

private university in Surat Thani, Thailand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2393562
Source-derived summary

Tapee College (Thai: วิทยาลัยตาปี) is a private college in the city of Surat Thani, Surat Thani Province, Thailand. The college was established in 1999 and named after the major river of the province.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tapee College” as private university in Surat Thani, Thailand. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-02-26. The account is most persuasive where Tapee, College and private can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as private university in Surat Thani, Thailand. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2393562. Authority coordinates are 9.126, 99.318. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
Verify next

Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Tapee College”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tapee College primary sources, Tapee College archive and Tapee research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Tapee College”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Tapee College” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.