Myanmar

Total population (in thousands)	53,897 (2015)
Population aged 14 years and younger (in thousands)	14,849 (2015)
Out-of-school children	284,278 (2014)
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Meet the woman who’s turning Myanmar’s street children into chefs

Story Source: Channel News Asia ~ Go to Original Article Ma Khin started a restaurant to shelter and train street ...
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Rahima has lived her entire life in a Rohingya refugee camp – for her, education is the ticket to a normal life

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 10 Oct 2018 | by: South China Morning Post | Story Source: South China ...
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Mobile teachers help out-of-school children from ethnic minority in Myanmar

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 10 Oct 2018 | by: Billy Briggs | Story Source: TheirWorld ~ Go to ...
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Children with Disabilities

Help is scarce for Rohingya children with intellectual disabilities

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 22 Aug 2018 | by: Wudan Yan | Story Source: Global Post PRI ~ Go ...
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I can choose my career as I like

Po Tha Jan is from the Kapyinyoe Non-Formal Education (NFE) class, Hlegu Township, Yangon Region. He is nine years old and ...
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In Burma, Children With Disabilities Struggle to Access Schools

According to a government-led national survey, approximately 60 percent of deaf people in Burma never go to school. Continue reading about the ...
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Emergency

Rahima has lived her entire life in a Rohingya refugee camp – for her, education is the ticket to a normal life

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 10 Oct 2018 | by: South China Morning Post | Story Source: South China ...
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Help is scarce for Rohingya children with intellectual disabilities

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 22 Aug 2018 | by: Wudan Yan | Story Source: Global Post PRI ~ Go ...
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Only a quarter of Rohingya refugees’ education needs have been met

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 23 August 2018 | by: GEM Report | Story Source: GEM Report ~ Go ...
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Gender

Childhood Interrupted: Plan International Release Report on The Lives of Rohingya Refugee Children

Childhood Interrupted Download the Report from PLAN International, 25 February 2018 At least 688,000 refugees have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state, ...
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Rohingya girls are living in a grim purgatory

Sabuka's mother was killed crossing the border into Bangladesh. For every one of the almost one million Rohingya people living ...
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Teacher works overtime to give Rohingya girls a chance to learn

Working to help young Rohingya refugees girls get some schooling in displacement Recently arrived Rohingya refugee, Rosina Akhter, 12, is ...
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ICT in Education

Stepping into a Virtual Reality Classroom for Teacher Training in Myanmar

by CSD|May 23rd, 2018 By Haein Shin & Tara Stafford Ocansey Categories: Capacity Building, Education, Sustainable Development Goals, Technology, Technology ...
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Hour-of-Code introduced at Myanmar’s biggest school

By KYAW PHONE KYAW | 31 JAN 2018 A global movement of computer programming for children named Hour-of-Code was introduced by the Myanmar ...
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Myanmar Mobile Project Helps Lift Young Workers Out of Poverty

YANGON — It’s six o’clock in the evening, Saw Ku Do reviews his English lessons shortly after finishing an 11-hour ...
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Innovative Financing

Japan to boost education partnership with Myanmar

By NYAN LYNN AUNG, 23 January, 2018 Japan looks forward to more Myanmar students taking part in a student exchange program this year, ...
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North Devon teacher sets up in Myanmar

A Barnstaple-born teacher is hoping to set up a school on the other side of the world. Chloe Smith has ...
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Educate A Child signs agreement with United World Schools to reach over 33,000 children in Cambodia, Myanmar and Nepal

Educate A Child (EAC), a programme of the Qatar based Education Above All Foundation (EAA), has signed a three year ...
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Learning Outcomes

Meet the woman who’s turning Myanmar’s street children into chefs

Story Source: Channel News Asia ~ Go to Original Article Ma Khin started a restaurant to shelter and train street ...
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FLS in Action: Regional Planning Workshop to Expand Flexible Learning Strategies for Out-of-School Children in ASEAN

ognizant of the need to expand the provision of FLS in the ASEAN region, UNESCO Bangkok will organise a two-day ...
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Mother Tongue

The urgency and opportunity to return to learning

Source: World Bank Blogs ~ Read the original article Education is a social experience. Education is reading comprehension and mathematical ...
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Pandemic disruption to learning is an opportunity to reimagine, revitalize education

Source: UN News ~ Read the original article To mark the third International Day of Education on Sunday, UN Secretary-General ...
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School choice advocate pitches $1,200 stipend for struggling students

Source: WRAL ~ Read the original article A former state lawmaker and long-time school choice advocate is pitching the General ...
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Partnership

Validating Teacher Competency Standards In Myanmar

Story Source: Acer ~ Go to Original Article Teacher competency standards are important for increasing the quality of teaching ...
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Meet the woman who’s turning Myanmar’s street children into chefs

Story Source: Channel News Asia ~ Go to Original Article Ma Khin started a restaurant to shelter and train street ...
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Only a quarter of Rohingya refugees’ education needs have been met

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 23 August 2018 | by: GEM Report | Story Source: GEM Report ~ Go ...
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Policy and Curriculum

Myanmar: Draft of Basic Education Law faulty: teachers

By EI SHWE PHYU 04 JAN 2018 The Myanmar Teachers’ Federation has said the draft of the Basic Education Law to be submitted ...
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Educating for Myanmar’s Future

10/30/2017 After a half-century of neglect under military rule, Myanmar’s education system has fallen apart. Prospects for sustaining the country’s ...
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Myanmar: Malala calls for defence of Rohingya

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says the "global community" needs to intervene to protect Myanmar's Muslim minority. She urged ...
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