Myanmar's Educators Reach Out to the World

By Lara Farrar. Yangon Technological University has come a long way since it was the site of anti-government student protests in 1988 that eventually spread across Myanmar. The campus has been refurbished and a sense of normality is beginning to return...
As Myanmar’s government embarks on improving its higher education system, the possibility of assistance from foreign universities and scholars, whether in training faculty or rebuilding libraries has become a central focus. And foreign universities are pouring into the country to try to find ways to help.
“Many, many major international universities would like to have a piece of the pie,” said Jacques Fremont, director of the international higher-education program at the Open Society Foundations, a nonprofit organization founded by the investor-philanthropist George Soros. Read more...