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Y-Wang, who worked for over 10 years as a medical doctor in China serving people with disabilities, writes about how the challenges those with diability face in China, including the educational challenges that children with disabilities face. Access the blog through: https://www.chinasource.org...

In the past, Myanmar had not allowed the teaching of the ethnic languages of the country, punishable by jail. To accelerate a policy of “Burmanization,” the military regime adopted Burmese as the official national language and forced schools throughout the country to employ it as the language of...

A Myanmar native describes his experience with the Myanmar education system and argues that not enough progress has been made. Its curriculum is as subpar as ever, and little emphasis is made to educate the poor and prevent child labor. I was born in the small town of Kanyutkwin in Bago Division...

By Cody Minnich, Evaluation Intern, UNICEF Cambodia On a rainy Monday morning in the Prasat Bakong district outside of Siem Reap, my colleague, Phaloeuk Kong, and I sat in on a focus group discussion(FGD)with a commune council regarding a cash transfer pilot project that had been implemented in...

In this article, Aung Zin Phyo Thein, who attended the Diplomatic School Yangon in Myanmar, agrees that most international schools in Myanmar are not up to an international standard, but he argues that the teachers are not to blame. In fact, the high fees, which many underprivileged families cannot...