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Description: "The Myanmar Education Consortium (MEC) is a program designed to increase access to and quality of early childhood, primary and non-formal education programs in the informal (non-government) and formal sector. In particular, MEC supports the building of capacity of complementary education systems and structures including community and school-based early childhood development, and education programs for vulnerable children and young people who cannot attend primary schools. The Myanmar Education Consortium was founded in March 2013 and is currently funding sixteen partners –Save the Children, the Burnet Institute and World Vision Myanmar have been working in partnership throughout the program. In June 2014 an additional 13 organisations started projects in partnership with MEC."
Source/publisher: Myanmar Education Consortium
Date of entry/update: 2014-09-27
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Language: English
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Description: "What we do: Save the Children supports the development and improvement in the quality of early childhood education, that helps engage children at an early age and prepare them for primary education. The programme aims to play a key role in significantly increasing the number of children – particularly from the poorest communities in Myanmar – who access and complete their primary education, bringing new opportunities for children in Myanmar."...
Source/publisher: Save the Children Myanmar
Date of entry/update: 2014-09-27
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Language: English
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Description: "Abstract: Formal state schooling has since its inception been directed towards the building of national identity. As state discourses are commonly and readily transmitted through school textbooks, they may be uncovered by careful examination. This study looked at five primary school Burmese language readers used in Myanmar (Burma) to reveal how they function to project a particular version of national identity. Its proposition is that the state in Myanmar aims to legitimise itself through schooling—and specifically, the primary school textbooks—by configuring itself as an integral part of a greater entity, ‘the Union’. It finds that according to the textbooks’ normative model, the ideal citizen has distinct ethnic, religious and gender characteristics. It explores the play between constructs of state, national and individual identity in the textbooks through different techniques for content and text analysis. It is an original contribution to the body of work imparting how formal mass education is designed to buttress national institutions and concepts. Its conclusions, while pertaining explicitly to Myanmar, have relevance to state schooling everywhere.....Acknowledgements: I would like to thank the following people for their support: My supervisors, Clive Whitehead and Lyn Parker, who assisted and encouraged me more than they were obliged to. Many other staff at UWA, including Patrick Jory and David Bourchier, who offered advice and friendship; and Philip Taylor, who organised useful seminars during 2001. Basil Fernando, Sanjeewa Liyanage and other friends and colleagues at AHRC, who have always been ready to help when needed. Ko Aung Myint, who proofread the Burmese–English text. Thra Bill Win and Nang Tzam, who sowed the seeds for this study by using the schoolbooks in an admirable effort to teach me a little Burmese. And finally, thanks to Alistair Paterson for everything..."
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Source/publisher: Nick Cheesman
2003-02-09
Date of entry/update: 2021-10-12
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Sub-title: The government will revise curriculums for three levels for the academic year 2020-21 to keep education programmes in line with international standards, a senior Education Ministry official said.
Description: "U Tun Maung Win, deputy director general of the Department of Basic Education, said the curriculums for Grade 4, Grade 7 and Grade 10 will be revised simultaneously. “In other countries, they change the curriculum for one level of education per year. Myanmar’s education system is left behind compared with the international community and so we need to change for three levels in one year,” he said on Tuesday. The education official said teachers will be provided training during the summer holidays to get acquainted with the new syllabus. All primary, middle and high school teachers will have to get consecutive trainings for the new curriculums in the next summer,” he said. U Tun Maung Win said the teachers need to be qualified and disciplined in implementing the new curriculums. “The strength of teachers is crucial for the education of the country. The quality of education will improve only if the teachers are qualified,” he said. He said the Ministry of Education is making preparations for the new textbooks to be issued in time, and urged the parents to get familiar with the new education system in order to help their children. Meanwhile, U Ko Lay Win, director general at Basic Education Department , said teachers were directed to conduct review classes to their students when all classes are closed during the examinations of Grade 5 and Grade 9..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-01-09
Date of entry/update: 2020-01-10
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Description: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Gross Enrolment Ratio in Pre-Primary / Preschool (E CCE) Programs... Percentage of Grade 1 Intakes With Pre-Primary / Pr eschool (ECCE) Experiences... Gross Intake Rate or Apparent Intake Rate (AIR... Net Intake Rate (NIR)...Gross Enrolment Ratio: Primary, Middle and High Sch ool Level... Combined (Primary and Middle School Levels) Gross E nrolment Ratio... Net Enrolment Ratio: Primary, Middle and High Schoo l Level... Combined (Primary and Middle School Levels) Net Enr olment Ratio... Percentage of Girls in Primary, Middle, High and 9- Year Basic Education Enrolment... Public Expenditure on Education as a Percentage of GDP... Public Expenditure on Education as a Percentage of Total Government Expenditure... Distribution of Total Public Expenditure on Educati on by Sub-Sectors (Levels)... Unit Cost: Primary , Middle and High School Level... Percentage of Teachers Having Required Academic Qua lification: Primary Level and Middle School Level... Percentage of Certified (Professionally Trained) Te achers: Primary Level and Middle School Level... Pupil Teacher Ratio: Primary, Middle and High Schoo l Level... Percentage of Female Teachers: Primary, Middle and High School Level... Student Flow Rates (Promotion, Repetition and Dropo ut) for Grade 1 to Grade 11... Completion Rate: Primary, Middle and High School Le vel... Transition Rate from Primary to Middle School Level (TRPMS)... Transition Rate from Middle to High School Level (T RMHS)... Coefficient of Efficiency: Primary, Middle and High School Level... Literacy Rate of 15-45 Year Old... Adult Literacy Rate (Aged 15+)... Pupil-Class Ratio... Percentage of Oversized Classes (Sections with Over 40 Pupils)... Retention Rate... Teacher Attrition Rate... Percentage of Classrooms with Minimum Standard Qual ity Level... Percentage of Schools with Library... Percentage of Schools with Proper Water & Sanitation Facilities ... Percentage of School Heads Receiving School Managem ent Training... Percentage of Schools Submitting PTA Meeting?s Repo rt to TEO Office ... Percentage of Schools Accomplished All Suggested Sc hool-Calendar Activities... Percentage of Schools Inspected by TEO Office durin g Previous School-Year
Source/publisher: Myanmar Ministry of Education, UNESCO
Date of entry/update: 2014-12-30
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Language: English
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Description: Introduction: "The main purpose of this evaluation of the UNICEF Education Programme in Myanmar 2006-2010 is to assess its performance in terms of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and suggest any needed modifications for further programming. The evaluation report attempts to identify key lessons learned and good practices documented through delivering the project interventions, as well as to suggest future directions that would contribute to the design and development of a second phase of multi-donor support from 2011. The Terms of Reference for the evaluation are at Annex 1."
Creator/author: David J Clarke
2010-12-16
Date of entry/update: 2014-12-30
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Language: English
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Description: လူသားအရင်းအမြစ်ဖွံ့ ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရန် ပညာရေး ဘတ်ဂျက် တိုး သင့်... ပြည် တွင်း၊ ပြည်ပ၊ ဒေသတွင်း အင်္ဂလိပ် ဘာသာ စကား အရေးပါလာပြီ... ပညာရေး ကဏ္ဍ ပိုတိုးတက်မှ ဆင်းရဲနွမ်းပါးမှု လျော့ကျမှာ... ကဏ္ဍ တစ်ခု လုံး ပြန်လည် သုံးသပ် ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲတော့မည်... ကနေ့ပညာရေးစနစ် အလုပ် အကိုင်ဈေး ကွက် နဲ့ အံဝင်ခွင်ကျဖြစ်ဖို့ လိုနေသေး... ပထမဦးဆုံး ပုဂ္ဂလိကဆရာများ အသင်းချုပ် ပေါ်ပေါက် လာရန် ဝိုင်းဝန်းကြိုးပမ်းနေ... ကန် ပညာရေးအသုံးစရိတ် ဒေါ်လာ ၇ဝ ဘီလျံ လျာထား... နွေရာသီ ပုဂ္ဂလိကကျောင်း များ စိတ်ဝင်စားသူ ပိုများလာ... အပြည့်အဝ နားလည်ဖို့ လိုနေတဲ့ ဘာသာစကား...
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar Consolidated Media)
2012-02-00
Date of entry/update: 2012-03-18
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Language: Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Description: Once again, parents in military-ruled Myanmar are counting the cost of a primary education for their children in public schools. It is an annual ritual that comes with the beginning of the new school year, which coincides with the onset of the monsoon rains in June. Although the Southeast Asian nation has laws affirming that primary school education is free and compulsory, the economic headaches parents have to cope with at this time of the year suggest otherwise, according to a parent from Yangon, the former capital, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Creator/author: Marwaan Macan-Markar
Source/publisher: Asia Times Online
2010-06-22
Date of entry/update: 2010-10-21
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Language: English
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Description: "This report has been produced by UNESCO as part of the project MYA/99/004: Improving Access of Children, Women and Men of Poorest Communities to Primary Education for All to record the establishment and development of Community Learning Centres (CLCs) in Myanmar under the project, to describe the process that allowed the set up of these centres and to describe the outcomes as well as their impact on individuals and communities in terms of people?s quality of life improvement.... Contents: * Executive Summary; * Introduction; * Defining Community Learning Centres in Myanmar; * Establishment of Community Learning Centres in Myanmar; * Networking, Sustainability and Expansion; * References; * Appendices; o Appendix 1 CLC Memorandum of Partnership; o Appendix 2 CLC Micro-Projects Approval Form; o Appendix 3 Workshop Profiles for CLC/MC Capacity Building; o Appendix 4 Workshop Profiles for Training of Trainers; o Appendix 5 Workshop Profiles for Capacity Building in Income Generating Activities.
Creator/author: JØrn Middleborg, edited by Boudouin Duvieusart
Source/publisher: UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2002,
2002-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-09-01
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Language: English
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Description: "This management case study has been prepared on the basis of experiences gained in the UNDP-funded and UNESCO-implemented project Improving Access of Children, Women and Men of the Poorest Communities to Primary Education for All. The infrastructure component of the education project has been impressive both in terms of the quantity of school buildings repairs, extended or replaced and in the efficiency of its implementation. These impressive achievements are due in large part to the lessons learned in the two previous projects. The resulting building and furniture designs are relevant for study by other persons and organizations working on educational infrastructure throughout Mynamar. More widely applicable, however, is the management process that has been developed. This will be useful not only in Myanmar but also to other countries involved in rural school construction programmes that rely on community participation... Contents: * Acronyms; * Introduction; * Construction: The Management Process; * Furniture Provision: The Management Process; * Toward Future Improvements; * Bibliography; * Annexes... A. Memorandum of Partnership for School Construction; B. Bill of Quantities; C. Monthly School Site Progress Report; D. Database: Monitoring Indicators; E. Work Plan; F. Funiture Process Checklist.
Source/publisher: UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education
2002-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-09-01
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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