Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s opposition leader, has called on UK university leaders to help her country rebuild its higher education system which she says has been virtually “destroyed” by 50 years of military rule. (more…)

Moe Sat, a 23-year-old physics major at Myingyan Degree College near Mandalay, said that there were so many students in class that no one could hear the teachers. (more…)

Traditional Kachin music fills the community hall as a troupe of singers bellows out a song for family and friends at the Teacher Training College in the town of Mai Ja Yang. It is a night of celebration for 65 graduates who have upgraded their teaching skills in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State, not far from the Chinese border.
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Smaller class size, with more personal attention — these are the perks of students who are enrolled in a private boarding school, with fees of about US$350 a year.
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The Minister for Education has pledged to reallocate more than K30 billion (about US$35 million) from the budget on the basic education sector following a proposal submitted by a Pyithu Hluttaw representative last week. (more…)

Isolated for decades under the rule of military dictators who invested almost nothing in education and choose to keep the people ill-informed, generations have grown up with just the most basic learning. Even now, with a nominally-civilian government introducing a series of democratic changes, some feel the situation is so bad that people have to relearn how to learn. (more…)

It’s lunchtime, but in the offices of the National League for Democracy (NLD), no one is stopping work. As we go up a tight staircase into an office hung with portraits of leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her father General Aung San, activists work energetically around tables strewn with documents and maps. Student volunteers flick between drafting policy papers on antiquated PCs and checking Facebook on their iPhones. (more…)

Burma’s universities were once considered by many to be among the best in East Asia. But years of mismanagement and a disastrous nationalization process left the education system in such shambles that many students seek educational opportunities abroad. (more…)

Dear Burma School came into being 10 years ago. On the first day the school opened, classes were conducted in front of Ramkamhaeng University’s student club building, where they stayed for several months. (more…)

Reforming Burma’s underfunded and outdated education system is a key priority for raising living standards in the country and rebuilding higher education will start with improving academic education at Rangoon University, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday. (more…)

Pro-union lecturers at Rangoon University are being transferred to different institutions across Burma in what the professors say is a deliberate move to undercut unions.
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From Obama to Hague, foreign dignitaries are flocking to Myanmar. But as the country grapples with democratic change, its education system risks holding back the next generation. (more…)

Minister for Border Affairs Lieutenant General Thein Htay has agreed to try and help students from a Mandalay college for ethnic minorities who protested this week after their school was transferred to Sagaing. (more…)

Rangoon – The scars of military rule run deep at Yangon University — decrepit buildings, broken sidewalks and mold everywhere. But with plans for President Obama to visit on Monday, hundreds of workers have converged in an urgent effort to spruce up the campus. Mr. Obama’s trip to Myanmar will be the first by an American president, and the authorities are creating something of a Potemkin campus to greet him. (more…)

Rangoon -The University of Yangon was once one of Asia’s best colleges. Today, abandoned buildings rot away on its overgrown campus, with some walkways deserted except for dogs. (more…)

After decades of neglect, Burma’s education system is in drastic need of reform and a far larger share of the national budget, said activists and educators at a forum last weekend. (more…)

An NGO providing assistance to migrant children on the Thai-Burmese border has reached several agreements with the Burmese officials that will allow migrant students to enter government schools in Burma and take matriculation exams. (more…)

Institutes of Technology will reopen in Burma’s two biggest cities of Rangoon and Mandalay after being closed by the junta government 24 years ago. (more…)

Burmese President Thein Sein says his government will open schools to improve the education of minority Rohingya Muslims who accuse the majority Buddhist state of persecuting them. (more…)

Burmese lawmakers in the Lower House last week took over the drafting of a higher education bill while also chiding the Ministry of Education for not allowing universities freedom to govern their own affairs. (more…)