Cracks in a new school building in the country’s northwest has led to calls for construction company Pyae Gaday to be banned from further tenders.
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Backed with a haunting piano score, a Burmese cartoonist tells you in three minutes everything you need to know about child exploitation.
More than five million youngsters across the country will each be provided with a free uniform for primary school.
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It is believed the three Chinese men were stopped and searched by Burmese soldiers, who suspected they may be spies after viewing pictures on their phones.
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On this week’s episode of DVB Debate, the panel asks whether the police use of civilian thugs to put down protests can be legally justified.
A fire has destroyed the living quarters of a boarding school, with students having to sleep in classrooms.
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DVB Debate looks at the place of persons with a disability in Burmese society, and discusses what must change to ensure equal opportunities for all.
The World Bank has announced it will provide US$100 million to expand the Burmese Ministry of Education’s School Grants and School Stipends Programme.
Parents in Irrawaddy Division are refusing to send their children back to school after authorities failed to prosecute anyone for poisoning the children’s drinking water.
The NLD Education Network has launched more than 150 primary schools across Burma aimed at underprivileged children. However, more schools have been founded and the number of children is increasing.
The Consumer Protection Association of Myanmar [Burma] will lobby against the sale of imported snacks from China at schools, after tests show high levels of harmful chemicals.
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A campaign called, “Their Hands, Our Future” has been set up in Rangoon to raise awareness for children whose parents cannot afford to send them to school.
Platform Classroom is set up on a sidewalk next to the Mandalay Central Railway station. It has become the learning centre for almost 40 children – many of whom are homeless and shelter at the station.
Many of Rangoon’s under-aged teashop workers, who often work long hours for little pay to support their families, will soon be able to study for free. Myanmar Mobile Education Project (myME) delivers education in buses retrofitted as mobile classrooms.
A new primary school for migrant children is set to open near Bangkok next month, where students will be able to study their native curriculum in the Burmese language for the first time
Burmese authorities have defended earlier claims that the blaze at an Islamic school in downtown Rangoon in early April was caused by an ‘overheated voltage regulator’
Thirteen children were killed when a fire broke out in their Muslim school on Tuesday night. Eyewitnesses describe what they saw.
At least thirteen children have been killed in a fire at an Islamic school in Botahtaung township, Rangoon in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Reports suggest the fire was[…]
Residents in Thaketa township are stunned after an angry mob attacked a local Muslim school and several businesses on Monday night. Locals say people get along well with each other[…]
A local Burmese community has been left terrified after an angry mob of 300 Buddhists viciously attacked a Muslim school and several businesses in a suburb outside Rangoon earlier this week
New law allowing private schools to open in Burma contains veiled threat over teaching material deemed subversive by authorities
Statement en route to education minister in which parites demand schools in ethnic regions be allowed to teach in their native language
National League for Democracy’s tenth donation to children of political prisoners counter-balances woeful government education spending
Oct 6, 2009 (DVB), Burma's education system focuses too much on testing and curriculum material is strictly controlled by the military government, according to an exiled Burmese education expert. Burma[…]
June 12, 2009 (DVB), United Nations' calls for urgent support for education in Burma have been reinforced by reports that schools in Rangoon are now reliant on donations from parents[…]
Feb 3, 2009 (DVB), As the national tenth standard examinations draw closer in Burma, parents, teachers and students have expressed their concerns about the quality of teaching in standard schools[…]
Feb 2, 2009 (DVB), Bago authorities have demolished two school buildings in Phoe Yoe Su village, Kawa township, to make way for a new construction project, forcing children to attend[…]
Jan 5, 2009 (DVB), Local authorities in Natsinchaung village in Rangoon's Zeegone township have been forcing local people to contribute to reconstruction work on a school destroyed by Cyclone Nargis,[…]
Jan 2, 2009 (DVB), The number of children attending basic education schools in cyclone-affected areas has dropped since last year, but officials are not keeping adequate records, according to a[…]
