"The United Kingdom has said it will help Burma improve its higher education sector, according to an announcement on Monday pledging support to education in Burma at both the school and post-school levels. ?Plans are afoot in tertiary education aimed at strengthening higher education institutions,” said Martin Davidson, chief executive of the British Council, after a meeting in London with Burma?s opposition leader leader Aung San Suu Kyi. ?We hope to provide support and opportunities for academic mobility and develop research and teaching links between academics and students in our two countries The British Council told Suu Kyi it would continue its work to develop Burma?s education system, which is seen as vital to generate stability and opportunities for the country?s future. Aung San Suu Kyi described education as key to Burma?s security and development in a speech to the UK parliament on 21 June, during an official visit which included collecting an honorary doctorate of civil law at Oxford University almost two decades after it was first awarded to her."...