Education Abstracts: Burma. September-December 1968, January-April 1969.

Overview & Synopsis

Summaries of 243 Burmese newspaper articles, published from September through December 1968 and January through April 1969, offering information on educational seminars, educational statistics, primary and secondary education, and higher education, are reproduced in this two-volume bibliography with abstracts. Editorials and miscellaneous newspaper coverage include a broad variety of educational information, usually focusing on the new Burmese system of education. Reports on the training of junior assistant teachers and Burmese technical and vocational schools are treated in a special section. Appendixes include material on a librarians' seminar, a 1968 general seminar, education in British Burma, and literacy campaign. The numbered bibliographic entries provide the newspaper article title, newspaper source, dates of publication, and article length. For related documents see ED 025 987 and ED 027 807. (RL)