6. Ньян Лин Хтед, сотрудник исследовательского центра АСЕАН, доклад: «Сотрудничество между Россией и Мьянмой в сфере образования»

1. Strengthen collaboration in Educational sector
between Russia and Myanmar (1972 to present)
Nyan Lin Htet
1st year Master Student
Department of public policy and policy analysis
Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 2015

2. • Vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution designed to set
sanction against Myanmar (Burma);
• Establishment of Russian – Myanmar cooperation in 1972;
• Annual trade approximately more than 200 million dollars
every year.
Bilateral Relation between Myanmar and Russia
• Myanmar with 53 million population (2014) and
situated in South East Asia.
• Began from 2010, rapid political and economic
reforms been happened.
• Government has started to initiated a comprehensive
era for new developments inside the country.
Myanmar Profile

3. ACADEMIC COLLABRAITON
• Began educational partnership since 1970;
• Started with 12 Myanmar students and 6 Russian Students (USSR);
• Establishment Of Russian Myanmar organization in 2001;
• In 2000, more than 300 students were employed in Universities in Moscow;
• In 2004, 600 students and till present more than 4000 (MSc , PhD and DSc)
Myanmar experts in academic filed were graduated from various Russian
Universities. (Moscow, St. Peter, etc)
Revitalization of exchange student program
• 30 Russian students were sent to Government Technological University;
• Establishment Russian Language Department in Universities of Foreign
language in Rangoon and Mandalay;
• Teachers exchanged program will began in 2015 as one of the agreement
results in 2014 Russian prime minister visited to Myanmar.

4. • Development of new study programs in Oil and Gas, Aviation, Computer
sciences, social work, market economy, tourism in universities;
• Joint study programs and courses;
• First Aviation Institute expects to open in early 2016 in Myanmar;
• Invention of 1st Robot Drone in 2012 by Myanmar students;
• Teachers professional development;
• Teaching Russian language in universities of foreign languages in Rangoon and
Mandalay.
Benefits:
Expenditure
• Myanmar Gov. has spent more than 150 million dollars on students in Russia
and 50 million dollars more than to integrate the education system in
Myanmar.
• Russian Gov. spent more than 100 Million dollars infrastructure in education in
Myanmar (GDI, Library of MDI, Research Centre in MCR)

5. National Negotiation Meeting For Education (2009)
4 Main Pillars
• Systemic and permanent/long term educational approach;
• Encouraging collaboration and long-term partnerships among all levels of
Education System;
• To develop cooperation between exchange student programs in order to
increase the attractiveness of the higher education systems of both countries;
• A systematic monitoring process on the perceptions of the Education system
involving the actors and interest groups from both countries.

6. KEY CHALLENGES TO BE ADDRESSED
In the frame of the current context of cooperation between the two countries,
consultation with experts, policy and decisions makers in the field highlighted the
following challenges, which shall be taken into consideration when designing
strategies to enhance cooperation:
At the policy level:
• the fragmentation of the region in terms of Higher Education systems,
infrastructural development, culture and language;
• Developing the Academic Autonomy and financial Autonomy in Universities;
• the openness and mobility constraints given by national governments of both
level.

7. Current needs for higher education in Myanmar
• Adopting comparable higher education degrees;
• Adopting a two-tier “bachelor-master” and as soon as possible a three-tier
“bachelor-master-doctorate” education system;
• Promoting academic mobility;
• Cooperating in the provision of learning quality;
• Introducing integrated curricula at higher education institutions;
• Promoting life-long learning;

8. Conclusion
• Possessing strongest bilateral relation, expect to be expended more;
• Concentrate on 4 pillars to achieve magnificent developments in future;
• Schedule of Myanmar president visit to Russia in March, 2015;
• To maintain the collaborated research on Higher Education and expand
trade between two counties.

9. Thanks for your attention