Education abroad
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"A Myanmar Times special feature - January 2010"...Studying Abroad - How to apply and win a place at a prestigious university...Education sector is
flourishing in 2010 - Students enjoy a multitude
of study, learning options...Dubious agents entice
students short of visa...Students voice concerns
about studying in Aus...Garden school sews new hope...Music facilitates learning
where it?s most needed...Pre-schools boom
in Mandalay...Professionals choose MBAs...Manage your
resources...Spanking habits die hard...Where to study and how...Malaysia and Singapore
compete for young brains...Monastic education...Harvard imparts its wisdom...Scholars be [prepared?- line missing]...A strong CV can catapult your career...International students share their [experience? - line missing]
Source/publisher:
"The Myanmar Times"
Date of publication:
2010-01-00
Date of entry/update:
2011-09-24
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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English
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pdf
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1.63 MB
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Myanmar_Times-2010-eduaction.pdf-red.pdf
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This website provides information on how to get scholarship abroad for the students from Burma. A very useful site.
Source/publisher:
myanmarstudyabroad.org
Date of entry/update:
2014-10-08
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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Education abroad
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English
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Description:
"For 25 years, Prospect Burma has been investing in a positive future for Burma through its young people. Prospect Burma was set up in 1989 in the aftermath of the military regime?s suppression of mass pro-democracy demonstrations in Burma in 1988. At that time thousands of young Burmese fled to Burma?s borders, and universities and schools were closed down. Prospect Burma?s scholarship programme has awarded some 1,500 scholarships since that time and opens doors to educational opportunities currently unavailable and underfunded within Burma."
Source/publisher:
Prospect Burma
Date of entry/update:
2014-10-14
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Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Education abroad
Language:
English
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2013-2006
Source/publisher:
Prospect Burma
Date of entry/update:
2014-10-14
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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Education abroad
Language:
English
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"The activities of the Charles Wallace Burma Trust are divided into two parts: activity conducted in partnership with the British Council in Burma; and academic grants offered to postgraduate students from Burma studying in the United Kingdom."
Source/publisher:
Oxford University
Date of entry/update:
2014-10-13
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Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Education abroad
Language:
English
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Individual Documents
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"An agreement was signed between Myanmar and Japan on July 6th for the Human Resource Development Scholarship Program, according to the announcement of the Japan Embassy in Myanmar.
On behalf of the Myanmar government, Bharat Singh, Deputy Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations and Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Maruyama Ichiro signed and exchanged the agreement.
The Japanese government will be providing cash assistance of Yen 627 billion for human resource development in the education sector.
Moreover, the Japanese government will provide scholarships for post-graduate studies, 44 Master degree students and four Ph.D students, in the 2020-21 academic years.
From the beginning of Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship in Myanmar in 2001, totaling 545 Myanmar young and highly capable government officials and private sector participants had been dispatched to Japan under this program.
The Japanese Embassy also announced that the Japanese Ambassador and Bharat Singh, Deputy Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations also signed agreements on three projects in Nay Pyi Taw on July 2nd. The assistance of US$20.5 million was earmarked for upgrading of waterway indicators in Yangon River and then it would provide water distribution programs in Yangon and Mandalay Regions and upgrading of wireless devices..."
Source/publisher:
"Eleven Media Group" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-07-09
Date of entry/update:
2020-07-09
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Japan-Burma relations, Education abroad
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" The Myanmar-China Friendship Association has offered scholarships to 106 Myanmar outstanding students in need.
The students given scholarships this year included those who are studying in medical and engineering field as well as the postgraduates, Chairman Sein Win Aung of the association told the event on Saturday.
"Financial assistance from my parents who are farmers wasn't enough to cover all the expenses including tuition fees before. I really appreciate the assistance from the association as it means a lot for me," Oak Soe Paing, a freshman medical student, told Xinhua.
The program was handed over to the association from Su Xiuyu (Daw Zin Khine) Foundation, a Chinese educational foundation which has been extending scholarships to Myanmar students across the country since 2013.
So far this year, it has granted assistance to a total of 644 outstanding needy students from the country's states and regions..."
Source/publisher:
"Xinhua" (China)
Date of publication:
2020-03-01
Date of entry/update:
2020-03-01
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Individual Documents
Category:
China-Burma relations, Education abroad
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PTTTEP Myanmar Asset will provide scholarships to 20 Myanmar students to undertake vocation training in Thailand.
Description:
"The Thailand-based company has been involved in the country’s Zawtika oil and gas project for the past 30 years, said its HVD scholarship programme is being implemented by its parent company PTT Group since 2013.
Supporting the $200,000 annual HVD scholarship programme is Myanmar’s Ministry of Electricity and Energy and Ministry of Education.
Under the scholarship program, Myanmar students from AGTI (Associate of Government Technical Institute) will undergo three years of vocational education and training at the IRPC Technological College in the eastern province of Rayong.
Incorporating both classroom, practicum and on-the-job internship training, the curriculum is designed to equip students with workplace communications and technical mechanical skills that are required for industry trades, such as electrical and electronics, mechanical drawings, welding and CNC machining. Students are also trained in personal finance, business and entrepreneurship..."
Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-11-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-10
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Individual Documents
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"Inside Burma we also fund an intensive English programme in Kachin State costing £4,500 per annum, and English language courses for Burmese students at the British Council in Rangoon costing £9,600."
Source/publisher:
Prospect Burma
Date of entry/update:
2014-10-14
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Education abroad
Language:
English
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"...Based on the agreement between the KAAD and Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the two organizations jointly provide scholarship support for qualified applicants from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Timor Leste and Vietnam, to pursue Master?s or Doctoral degree program studies at the AIT. Interested persons may apply to any Fields of Study offered by the AIT."...
Source/publisher:
myanmarstudyabroad.org
Date of entry/update:
2014-10-08
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Education abroad
Language:
English
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"The U.S. Embassy Yangon is pleased to announce the opportunity to compete for the Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSIs) for Student Leaders program on Global Environmental Issues."...
Source/publisher:
Embassy of the United States, Rangoon, Burma
Date of entry/update:
2014-10-07
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Education abroad
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English
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"Since 2013, Ma Mya Mya Thet has been taking a one-year-and-five-month Master of Arts course in management and policy at the National Institute of Development Administration in Bangkok, Thailand, courtesy of a postgrad scholarship provided by the Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency (TICA).
Her experience highlights the anxiety faced by many Myanmar students when it comes to teacher interactions in the classroom, at home or abroad.
?My worst fear in the class is to ask questions and to be asked,” Ma Mya Mya Thet said in March following a TICA press conference at the Riva Surya Hotel about scholarships for Myanmar students.
?It takes time for me to accustom myself to questioning the teachers in the class because we are not in the habit of asking questions,” said Ma Mya Mya Thet, who earned her bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from Pyay Government Technology College, then worked as a vice director at the Department of Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security.
?We used to learn by heart and take exams from what we memorised.”
Now, she said, she?s working hard to adjust to a more open, dialogue-based classroom.
?I try to get into the habit of asking questions if I don?t understand something. The pedagogy here encourages me to research and think for myself. It is a big difference,” she said.
Ma Mya Mya Thet said Myanmar students on the whole are more motivated and disciplined than their foreign counterparts, and study very hard, with a serious attitude. They?re also better at writing in English than their Thai students, perhaps as a result of their diligent study habits.
But she said Myanmar students tend to be weaker in English speaking, ?because we don?t normally use the English language in the workplace.” That problem is compounded by the fact that they?re not used to raising their voices with confidence in the classroom."...
Zon Pann Pwint
Source/publisher:
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/special-features/182-education-2014/10500-class-divide.html
Date of publication:
2014-05-26
Date of entry/update:
2014-09-26
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Tertiary (higher) education, training and capacity-building, Education abroad, Educational Culture
Language:
English
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"Soe Yu Nwe?s journey from her home country of Burma, (also known as Myanmar) to the United States in 2009 brought her to Albion College, a liberal arts college in southern Michigan. Like many Burmese students, Nwe (who goes by the nickname Joy) came to the U.S. to study biology. She found her true calling, she says, when she took a ceramics class in her first semester."
Source/publisher:
"USA TODAY"
Date of publication:
2011-07-25
Date of entry/update:
2014-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Education abroad
Language:
English
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Description:
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..."
Myo Chit Thu
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 16, No. 5
Date of publication:
2008-05-00
Date of entry/update:
2008-05-01
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Education abroad
Language:
English
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