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Thanlwin Ainmat
April 06, 2006
How to help poor students for their Education
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Just a piece of thought.
The information about various scholarships and aids should be distributed (for middle-income students inspired for overseas studies).
Well. for the continuing education in Burma itself for financial difficulties, that's wider issue. It is not only school fees(Ah Hlu Khan), book fees, etc, the root cause if the financial state of family itself. So, how to improve the economy of the country, that's really BIG question.
What do you mean by "School Fee (Ah Hlu Khan)" ? Is the school fee is optional in myanmar ?
If my memory works well, I thought Burma is practicing Free for Education System....
My questions is -> Apart from Pravite Tuition Fees and Other Donations, Primary and Secondary School Student needs to pay "School Fees"?
Let's get back to the topic - "How to help poor students for their Education?"
I think - There are so many solutions to solve the problem...
However, the root of the problem is not -> "How to",
It will be -> "What CAN we do"...
(1)How much are we allowed to do in Myanmar ?
(2)Will there any interference from Authority ?
(3)How far can we go ?
(4)As a person staying in abroad, what is our abilities in Myanmar ?
wow! that's a good topic also..
This is something I am really interested in, helping poor kids. This is just my two cents. suggestions, criticism are all welcome..
1) How much are we allowed to do in Myanmar?
Not much if we are going to interfere with the government schools or whatever. BUT we can do a whole LOT with NGOs. For example, we can work with NGOs to help raise funds for them from here. There are many orphanages and NGOs in Myanmar.
2) will there any interference from Authority>?
Not until we become a BIG deal.
3)How far can we go?
No idea. But if we are prudent enough, we can go as far as we want. (I know this is just an idealized reponse)
4)As a person staying in abroad, what is our abilities in Myanmar?
I think of this living abroad as an advantage for us because we are not excluded from the world. We have connections, we know good people, and we are good people. We can talk to people we know about this good cause. I know this is not an easy job. We, as students, can go back to myanmar in turn to do whatever we need and we can also look for people who are interested in helping us. Students, who are trying to go abroad, would like to help us because they are the ones who are looking for so called "extra-curricular" activities. At least, that is how I used to be.
Alright, my answers may not make sense or just a total bullshit but this is my very vague idea. I am hoping to get many responses.
These comments are not bad. One thing I'd like to share. I heard that Gov won't accept any arrangements regarding education in Myanmar except private schools which are exploiting over our people in Myanmar. So I am not sure whether NGOs can discuss about this with Gov.
Raising funds won't be able to help much for poor students. However much we try to get funds, funds received will be like a drop of water in desert. For me, I don't think we can do much unless the education system is changed. Moreover, downsizing economic is one of the problems which effect education in Myanmar.
(My points might be from negative side, but these are the truth.)
So I want to state another question is "How can we do to change education system in Myanmar?".
This question "How can we solve our country's economic problems?" should be addressed as well.
Hope to get any ideas upon my questions.
this is a topic to hear & feel good but it won't succed unless the whole infrastructure is not trying to be changed.
how many people can help how many students to be efficient?
from my personal point of view,we first must decide how we want to help.
we want to help those just to pass the exam?
we want to help those to get knowledge of international standard of their ages?
but first of all,we have to correct the teaching & learning system of the country to keep in pace with other countries.
unless the system is ruined,everystudent can learn the subjects with affordable price.
if you don't need to pay extra charges[like tution fees]to nothing we can do later,everybody will pay a little to something they can do.they will also try to do so.
system must change in such a way that everybody can use efficiently.
so i think everything we do now might not be effective unless the whole structure is changed.
as I have read all the discussion, we all have to accept there are lot of poor students and there are a lot of parents who cancont support their children to study and some of the poor parents are thinking that there is nothing after studying and it is better working than studying.
I would like to ask here how reliable our education is and how much guarantee it has for our future life.
some said that it is not good for our future and no guarantee for the student life after studying. the old people said that it is worse that colonial education was because those people in collonial time could work as a teacher or clerk after their 7th or 8th standard. at least there was guartantee for the student life. yangon university and YIT was famous in Asia in the past time, now we all know how it is recognized by other countries. That is our education system goes down and down day by day..
anyway we(not only people but also Government)have to accept bad situation and try our best for improvement for our next generation.
yeah.. we can support some of the poor student by giving some money and materials but we cannot change for every student lifes and education system. That is only government can do.
one step is better than not moving.
Thank you
What we need is to change the education system in burma.Poor students or rich students, they don't believe the education. Most of the students think the education can't do anything for their life even some parents. What can we do better in this situation is to make all the students to intrest in their subjects. In burma the library system is so weak even we can say there is no library. And there is only very few good books in whole country if we want to study from books.So my suggestion is to make new library system maybe start with only one library with very good books and some reference books. The main difficultie for the poor students is they can't effort to take tution like other students and they don't have any believes in the education that they study. By making the free library system, they can find the global knowledegs and they will know why education is really need for their life. And they can study more than what the school can give them. So that is all!
I think that most of you have negative feeling about our Gov. you all are discussing about how to help the poor students, right? that's good. but you all said our education system is not good as the last time and there is no library in the school and so on..
do you all know that our gov built a lot uni in our country and we are produceing a lot of doctors, engineers and teachers for our country need? our gov support to have a computer lab and library at every school and uni.
do you guy know that there are Msc and Phd program at our local Uni? so It saves a lot money for our country. for degree students, they can be recognized in all the uni around the world to futher study...
so I think overall our education system is better than the past time.. and the student who stay in countrysid easily can study without coming to the capital cities.
I am not against you ko so win. It is right that there are a lot of university and school around the country. But the thing is are there qualify teacher teaching? Are there any research program running in that universities? The life of the university is research that only few people from burma know.Can you tell us that students who finished from those universities are really qualify? Those university only has name call university. They don't even have standard lab or library or even restruent. Most of the place call universities in burma don't have factsilities like as the high school from other countries even some high school inside burma. I didn't say we don't have good university. We have great university like as Yangon University, Y.I.T,... Those universities can even compare with Oxford or Cambridge in structure. But sadly we can't even have chance to study there.Anyway, as I said poor student or rich students they need believe in the education system of burma and give them a chance for selfstudy by making very good library system. The thing is we need quality not quantity!
Comment Posted by Nay Myo (Thanlwin)
Let me discuss this interesting topic from my point of view.
It is true that Rome was not built in one day, one month or one year. We need certain amount of time to help all poor students in our country. But, let us give them a hand as much as we could in order to transform their lives.
Education system might not be good as much as we expected compared to other countries. Yet, we need to help poor students to finish their basic education at least. The more illiterate people we have, the more the country will suffer from it. The school drop out rate especially in primary schools has been increasing yearly as many parents who are hardly surviving under high commodity prices could not even afford to spare a cent on the education for their children. Although this might be a bitter truth, we should not decline the reality. After realizing the true fact, we must act accordingly. Some of you might think it is just government's responsibility and why we need to bother. Or some of you are wondering how we can give them a hand. Whichever group you are in, a curtain call is needed to end spreading false statements that were purposely formularized to claim credits over wrong doings which is totally unacceptable.
I thank all your attentions and concerns over poor students and bringing up ideas and opinions about how we could help as well as arguing over education system. I have no doubt we have to work harder to be competitive enough in this challenging and flat world. While we work hard for our dreams, we should not forget the dreams of our poor students back in our country. Let us lend a hand to those needy students and also assist their dreams come true as many as possible.
Nyi Nyi, Great post! May I ask you a question because as you all know history is always repeating? There are many Burmese people who really love to help the basic education for poor kids. But most of the help came from outside of Burma were not welcome in the country by this unwise government. They are scare to death for the outside help. OK.. So, what will happen if we go in and help? We may end up at least at the detention center. If we choose some one in the country to accept our money and donate to those poor kids indirectly, that person will be in problem. If we donate thru government, it will be ending up at their pocket. Although founding a PRIVATE foundation is the best way to help those kids, there is no way government will ignore it. What is your idea? If you find a way to help them, share with us.
I'm writing in response to the recent post by Moe. In summary, Moe asked if there is a way to help poor students properly with no interruption from external factors. My answer is "Yes, there are few ways we can work out to make it possible". But, let me share two possible ways.
1) Individual help which means each and everyone willing to help poor students for their education can donate by self-arrangement. In the other words, an individual may donate one or two poor students (at least) who relate to your relatives or friends back in burma for their monthly educational expenses.
That's totally transperant and you may avoid being asked to stop by authorities. Anyway, I don't think helping poor students is a threat to burmese community. There're already some people who have practised that way to help poor students back in burma and may be you may try that as well.
2) There're many NGOs working in burma (e.g. World Vision). We could donate money thru those NGOs transperantly. Lately, I've just read that World Vision has been helping poor students for their education. We have two options if we decided to donate thru NGOs. First option is to donate indivually. Or another option is to collect money from donars and donate 4 times a year to NGOs who are mainly helping for education of poor stuents. We may organize a team to manage the education funds. We have an idea to form a task force lead by thanlwin ainmat editorial group if necessary.
So, kindly feedback your opinion and we, thanlwin ainmat members, are ready to act in supporting role to transfrom dreams of poor students into realities with the help of people like you who have concern for the future of burma.
Thanlwin ainmat members,
A wellcome thought for me and please count me in to support to the poor students.
hello thanlwin maung myar..
y so quiet yeh?
make some noise..
give somethings to discuss..
yeh?
I just want to reply to Mr.Soe Win Htet's comment.
Just 1 question to u ---
u really don't know about real situation of our country education or
pretend to be don't know?
If u really don't know,just gentle advise u to look into the base that what are the actual things happen in Myanmar.
1)So many universities,but no qulified students.For distance(Eg:Math,Chemistry,etc),u won't even need to go for exam.There has people who will sit exam for u.U can pass.FYI - Sitting the exam for others is a good earning business in Myanmar.
2)Any facilities for uni? My Pathein Computer university(1999-2000)has 5 computers for whole uni.(3 are spoilt).
3)Any qualified teachers are teaching? People who graduated from GTI are teaching to the students who study for GTC.
4)Any oppotunity after graduated? My fri who graduacted with B-com earn 20k kyats(25S$)per month for her basic pay.
If u pretend to be don't know---
I have nothing to discuss.
No pesonal attack.Only want to represent to all of students in Myanmar.Thanks a lot.
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Fight for democracy.
Fight for freedom.
Fight for unfair.
Fight for revolution.
Change the system.
Because we're young.
We have strength.
We're honest.
Collobrate with trusted organization around you.
Share your knowledge to support poor kids and your young brothers and sisters.
I believe better way to support our poor kids is fight SPDC's system.
How to fight????
How to collobrate each other???
ha ha ha...i can't stop my laughing when i read soe win dumbass.
poor soe win.
u shouldn't discuss here.u should need to know a lot.
ha ha ha... so funny.
I know the reason that why my country not developed coz of that kind of frog.
I am from OES. OES means Open-eyed Society. We established last year. We provide the needy children to study their Primary Education.This is our web site http://oesociety.blogspot.com/
Later I will explain about our children education and career.
Our country has three different level of people.
Upper level of people is rich people who could be easy to find money.
Middle level of people is civil servant who could not be worry about money.
Lower level of people is daily worker who could be difficult to find for money.
We could divide into three groups in Lower level of people.
First level of people can effort their children education.
second level of people can effort their living cost but is difficult to support their children education.
Third level of people cannot effort their living cost. They need to survive by their children work.
Our OES can support only second level of people. We think if we support third level of people, they will be difficult to stand their life and they could not support their children education.
I want some advice about our supporting.
Our country has three different level of people.
Upper level of people is rich people who could be easy to find money.
Middle level of people is civil servant who could not be worry about money.
Lower level of people is daily worker who could be difficult to find for money.
We could divide into three groups in Lower level of people.
First level of people can effort their children education.
second level of people can effort their living cost but is difficult to support their children education.
Third level of people cannot effort their living cost. They need to survive by their children work.
Our OES can support only second level of people. We think if we support third level of people, they will be difficult to stand their life and they could not support their children education.
I want some advice about our supporting.
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