Myanmar builds over 8,000 more basic education schools for past 20 years

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Myanmar built 8,748 basic education schools for the past 20 years, bringing the total to 38,162 as of 2008 since 1988, according to the latest official progress-indicating figures published in Monday's New Light of Myanmar newspaper.

These basic education schools include primary, middle and high schools, of which the primary schools stood the most with 31,329 and schools with multi-media classrooms being 1,829.

A total of 20 teacher ship education colleges were introduced over the two decades.




Relating to higher education, 17 university colleges were built over the period, bringing the total to 44 in 2008.

Other figures revealed that the number of teachers and students went to over 260,000 and 8.83 million respectively as of 2008.

With regard to science and technology education, 30 technological universities, 4 such colleges and 26 universities of computer studies were constructed with one each of Aerospace Engineering University and maritime university added over the period.

Meanwhile, Myanmar has been striving for the increase of the country's adult literacy rate annually with the figures attaining 94.83 percent in 2008, up from 83 percent in 1996.

The Ministry of Education, international agencies, governmental and non-governmental organizations, regional and local authorities and the communities reportedly made the efforts.

In the formal education sector, endeavors for 100 percent enrollment for all school age children and all students to complete basic education were exerted as a mass movement.

The education authorities urged more active participation in the literacy campaign to improve the education and socio-economic life of the people.

Moreover, Myanmar is also striving for the rural schools to keep pace with urban ones to reduce the development gap of education between the two areas.

Source: Xinhua