The conference needs to discuss the ways for students who completed the agriculture, livestock and industrial subjects to be able to go to the workplaces and then join higher education, said Chairman of the Leading Committee on Organizing the Myanmar National Education Conference 2023 Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win at the meeting between the leading committee and the working committee at the SAC Chairman Office in Nay Pyi Taw, yesterday afternoon.
Speaking on the occasion, the Vice-Senior General said that the Myanmar National Education Conference 2023 to be held in early May in Nay Pyi Taw will comprise keynote addresses, panel discussions, parallel sessions, themes, sub-themes, presentations, Q&A sessions and recommendation sectors.
The conference aims to improve the future education of Myanmar. It is a platform for discussing the future education of the country.
The conference will take place in line with the objective of the SAC: to comprehensively promote the education sector to make it capable of producing the human resources necessary for building a modern, developed, and progressive democratic nation.
During the tenure of the State Administration Council, the budget for the education sector was increased. Likewise, assistance was given to teachers. To improve the education sector, Naypyitaw State Academy was inaugurated on 9 November 2022. As of October 2021, cash assistance has been provided to faculty members depending on their educational qualifications as well as administrative costs to schools. Moreover, refresher courses are being conducted for the enhancement of the capacity of teachers.
In the conference, participants need to seek ways for remedying a lesser number of students who change grades as the first point. The second point is for regions and states to implement the KG+9 education scheme as a national duty. For the third point, agriculture, livestock breeding and industrial techniques must be taught to students in grades 10, 11 and 12 for having basic vocational knowledge. The fourth point is to teach applied subjects at agriculture, livestock and technical institutes to produce human resources. The fifth is to teach higher education to students in the environs contributing to the society. The sixth is to turn out arts and science professionals as well as technologists and to revitalize the national spirit and patriotic spirit of the youths.
The conference needs to discuss the ways for students who completed the agriculture, livestock and industrial subjects to be able to go to the workplaces and then join higher education. Resource persons are to compile papers on the improvement of Myanmar’s education sector. The education of youths who will serve the State duties in the future must be excellent in the time of SAC.
Deputy Minister for Education Dr Moe Zaw Tun reported on the formation of subcommittees, duties and functions, titles of papers and arrangements for holding the conference.
Those attendees participated in the discussions. The Vice-Senior General coordinated suggestions and discussions and gave a concluding remark. — MNA/TTA
