Myanmar strengthens education cooperation with India

Myanmar strengthens education cooperation with India

YANGON, 08/09 - Myanmar is strengthening cooperation with India in the field of education with the latter having trained out 177 Myanmar students during the past four years between 2001 and 2005 under an education cooperation program of Myanmar and India, a local news journal reported in this week`s issue.

The Myanmar students have undergone training in India under various subjects including doctorate degree, the Voice quoted sources with the Indian Embassy as saying.

The program was part of the two countries` education cooperation program in human resources development initiated through the visit to New Delhi by Myanmar state leader Senior- General Than Shwe in October 2004, the report said.

Myanmar is enhancing such cooperation with India bringing in more aid from the neighbor in the northwest to raise its education status.

Under the bilateral education cooperation program, India is also helping Myanmar turn the Yangon University into a center of excellence for scientific research by providing aid to the institution in terms of laboratory equipment to be used in such activities as upgradation of physics, biotechnology and information technology (IT) laboratories.

As part of its program to aid human resources development in CLMV countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam), India is also funding the establishment of a business training institute, the Entrepreneurship Development Center, with the provision of Indian academics to train Myanmar students in the sectors of IT, banking, managing small and medium enterprises and English, according to the report.