Burma?s Brawn and Brain Drain

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With little hope of higher education or well paying jobs, Burma?s young look abroad... "A teacher is giving English instruction in a small classroom packed with young students on the seventh floor of a building in Rangoon?s Sanchaung Township. The students all hope to pass entrance examinations that would admit them to foreign universities and colleges. The Sanchaung school is just one of many where the students? main ambition is to acquire the qualifications that would enable them to continue their studies overseas..."

Creator/author: 

Myo Chit Thu

Source/publisher: 

"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 16, No. 5

Date of Publication: 

2008-05-00

Date of entry: 

2008-05-01

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  • Individual Documents

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English

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