Talk:Education in Burma

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Education has suffered under the military regime, mainly as because of the government's disproportionate expenditure on the military. According to the UN, the government spends 222% more on the military than on both education and health.[1] Education that is available is in Burmese or English.[1] There is little or no formal education in minority languages. After pro-democracy student-led demonstrations in 1988, the ruling military junta forced the closure of all universities in Myanmar for several years.[2] The government then began to open new universities in the suburbs and rural areas of Mandalay and Yangon dispersing students to several campuses in order to prevent major unrest at centralised locations.

The University of Rangoon was once the most prestigious of all universities in Southeast Asia. Formed as Rangoon College, an associate college of the University of Calcutta, its merger with the former Judson College, founded the University of Rangoon. With the advent of military rule in the 1960s, the university was renamed Rangoon Arts and Sciences University and lost its prestige.[3]

Please merge into the article if possible. Thanks. Hintha 22:19, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

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