A new Computer Technology and Science University in Rangoon has been closed down

Independent Mon News Agency

April 12, 2004

A computer technology and science university in Ragoon has been closed down with no limited time, after more than a hundred of student who dismissed from the exam, protested for allowing them to exam in this year.

The university is in Thar Du Kan, Hlaw Kar, it closed on March 20, after the government education minister met the protester who did not attend 75% school time at the school and dismissed from the exam for this year by the university teacher.

Most of the protester are final student and they protested peacefully by asking in front of headmaster and repeal letter signed by all of them.

Although the student gathered around the headmaster and asking, the headmaster did not agree for the exam.

According to the protested student, Min Nyan Sadoa said the Chief Professor, Dr Pite Thin agreed to the protested student for allowing to exam. But while the student protesting, the government minister arrived and denied on what student asked.

And, the deputy education minister ordered to close the university and all of the student lost for this year exam.

But, chief professor Dir Pite Thin promised to the student he will try to get school to open and to have exam in May, Nyan added.

In Hlaw Kar University, it has two subject Computer Technology and Computer Science subjects and more than three thousand student learning in the university.

It is a new university and even the government made it a university, it was only college level, no internet and no E-mail.

Because of lack of the technology, a lot of the student from this university joins learning about computer in the private computer-training center while they learning in the university. More and more student preferred joining private computer-training center and lost attending the class in the university. According to the student, the number of the student absent the school increased and because of they need to learn e-mail and internet at the shop.

The student said they have learned nothing from the school after they finished the university and can do nothing.

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