The College was given a remit to deliver a course to English teacher trainers throughout the country.
The British Council invited Ayr College to develop a range of teaching materials and training manuals to help develop the English teacher trainers' ability to use the recommended "Backward Design" process.
This popular curriculum design allowed teachers to, firstly, identify what they wish the students to achieve, in this case an internationally recognised standard of English, and build the course around the end result.
Dr Sooh Sweeney, Curriculum Manager at Ayr College and Lead Trainer in Thailand, commented: "'Backwards Design' is an established three-tier process which identifies the outcomes of what you want the candidate to achieve, categorises and collects evidence that tests the candidates level of understanding, and finally uses a planning stage implementing the necessary course scheduling and lesson content.
"Our challenge was to tutor the teacher trainers in the skill of 'Backward Design' so they could pass on the knowledge to the 20,000 teachers of English, from 178 English Resource Instructional Centres (ERIC), administered by individual managers and overseen by the country's 10 Master Trainers."
To allow the training to be delivered to such a large target audience Ayr College International used videoconferencing equipment to pre-train Master Trainers in the week before arriving in Thailand.
Once in the country Dr Sooh Sweeney, aided by the Master Trainers, was able to deliver the main part of the course over two weeks to the ERIC managers, allowing them to transfer the knowledge to the 20,000 teachers of English throughout the country.
Alan MacKenzie, ELT Development Manager for the British Council in Thailand, commented: "There were several reasons for appointing Ayr College as the preferred service provider.
"These were due to the superb communications we received from their international department, academic staff showed fantastic enthusiasm for the project, and they promptly delivered a usable and appropriate product in a very short timeframe while showing tremendous engagement on administrative and practical levels."
One unexpected outcome from the Thailand project has been a recent visit from three Ministry of Education officials from the English Language Institute, accompanied by Alan MacKenzie from the British Council in Thailand.
The officials had already planned to visit Cambridge University on a fact finding mission but took the opportunity to extend their trip to tour Ayr College and see first hand its wide range of resources and facilities.