Changes in Education System

Examples of Changes

Old Education System

Matriculation students

can take

• Lower Burmese (for a restricted time)
• Optional Burmese
• Optional English
• Additional Mathematics
• One extra subject (as insurance)
• …

University students

can

• [easily] switch from one discipline to another
  e.g. Engineering back to Medicine, Pure Science, Arts …

• take Double Maths and Triple Maths (Pure, Applied, Statistics)

• join B.L, B.ED, … (after their Bachelors)

• 3-year Honors (after Intermediate)

• 2-year General Honors (after Intermediate)
  
• …

New Education System

Matriculation students

take six prescribed subjects based on Science or Arts option
e.g. Burmese, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology (for Science option)

University students

• 5-year Law degree
• 5-year Education degree
• can apply for SS (Science Scholarship)
• bypass the Intermediate and are admitted directly to the Institutes
  for some time, admitted using the controversial ILA (Intelligence Level Aggregate)
• …

Newer Education Systems

tried

• Regional College
• Moving some disciplines to the Ministry of Science and Technology
• “Compressed” academic terms [to make up for the school closure]
• Proliferation of Colleges and TUs
• Hybrid nomenclature :
  Professor, Associate Professor, Lecturer (instead of Assistant Professor), …

…