Education Abstracts - Burma.

Overview & Synopsis

Summaries of Burmese newspaper and periodical accounts published from January through April 1968, offering information on primary and secondary education, higher education, and the history of Burmese higher education are reproduced in this 114-item bibliography with abstracts. The section covering primary and secondary education offers excerpts from articles on methods of teaching Burmese and English, teacher activities, students' voluntary labor, camps, the arts, literacy campaigns, and examinations. Abstracts presented in the higher education section discuss convocations, medical and health education, economics, and a research congress and also cover editorials, publications, and lectures. A special section on higher education in Burma includes discussions in the following categories: (1) before Independence, 1948, (2) after Independence, 1948-62, (3) the period 1962-68, and (4) publications on university education in Burma. (AF)