"Education is a prerequisite to improved standards of living for all citizens o f Burma and particularly for improving the status of women. It is intrinsic to strong economic development of the country. The UNDP Human Development Index rates Burma 121st among 174 countries.3 The failure of the government over decades to provide opportunities for development has created a human resource problem that promises to burgeon with time. With the ?brain drain? of older educated people who have left the country over the past four decades, and the dearth of learning opportunities for younger generations, Burma today lacks, and in the future will continue to lack, educated, skilled people prepared to tackle and solve its developmental problems"...