ပညာတန္ခိုုး ျဖင့္လင္းေစေသာ္

ပညာတန္ခိုုး ျဖင့္လင္းေစေသာ္

‘’ Education is the most powerful weapon; we can use to change the world.’’ Nelson Mandela 
ပညေရးဟာ အစြမ္းထက္ဆံုုးလက္နက္၊ ဒါကိုုအသံုုးျပဳျပီး ကမၻာၾကီးကိုု ေျပာင္းလဲေအာင္ က်ေနာ္တိုု ့လုုပ္နိင္တယ္ ။ ( နယ္လ္ဆင္မန္ ဒဲလား )  

ပါေမကၡေဒါက္တာထင္ေအာင္ေမးခြန္း

‘’ အစိုုးရပညာေရး၀န္ၾကီး နဲ ့လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ေတြကိုု က်ေနာ္တိုုခုုေမးျခင္တယ္။ သင္ရိုုးညြန္းတန္းဆိုုတာ ဘာကိုုေခၚတာပါလဲ ‘’ လိုု ့ ပညာေရး ေလးပြင့္ဆိုုင္ အစည္းေ၀းမွာ ပါေမာကၡ ေဒါက္တာ တင္ေအာင္ က ေမးခြန္းထုုတ္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ပညာေရး၀န္ၾကီးေရာ ၾကံ့ခုုိင္အမတ္ ေတြ မေျဖ နိင္ၾကဘူး လိုု ့သိရပါတယ္။ ဒီအခါ မွာ ဆရာၾကီးက ဟာသ ဇတ္လမ္းေလး တခုုကိုုေျပာ ျပတယ္လိုု ့သိရတယ္။ ဇတ္လမ္းကေတာ့ အေမရိကန္ ပညာေရး၀န္ၾကီးနဲ ့ ျပင္သစ္ ပညာေရး၀န္ၾကီးတိုု ့ စားေသာက္ဆိုုင္ တခုုမွာ ေန ့လည္ စားၾကတယ္။ စားေနရင္ ျပင္သစ္ပညာေရး၀န္ၾကီးက လက္ က လက္ပတ္နာရီကိုုၾကည့္လုုိက္ရင္ အခုုဆိုုရင္ က်ဴပ္တိုု ့ ဆီက ေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ ဘာကိုုသင္ေနတယ္ဆိုု တာ အတိအက်ေျပာနိင္တယ္လုုိ ့ ၾကြားသတဲ့။ ဒီအခါမွာ အေမရိကန္ ပညာေရး ၀န္ၾကီးက က်ဳပ္ကေတာ့ မေျပာနိင္ဘူး သူတိုု ့သင္ျခင္သလိုု သင္ေနၾကတာလိုု ့ ဆိုုတယ္။ ဆရာၾကီးက ၀န္ၾကီးေတြကိုု ေျပာျပတဲ့ပုုံျပင္ကေတာ့ဒါပါပဲ။ ၀န္ၾကီးေတြနားလည္ေစျခင္းအလိုုငွာ က်ေနာ္ နည္းနည္း ထပ္မံ ရွင္းလင္းတင္ျပျခင္တယ္။ ၁၉ ၆၀ မတိုုင္ခင္ေလာက္က တကမၻာလံုုး က နိင္ငံေတြ တိုုင္ ဟာ မူလတန္းကေန အထက္ တန္းေတြအထိ သင္ရိုုးညြန္းတန္းေတြန ဲ ့သင္ၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ အေမရိကန္ မသင္ေတာ့ဘူး။
အေမရိကန္ ေတြ တီထြင္ထားတဲ့ပညာေရးစနစ္ ဟာ ဘာလဲ လုုိ ့ေမးရင္ ။ ဒီမိုုကေရစီပညာေရး သိုု ့မဟုုတ္ လစ္ဘရယ္အတ္ဒ္ ( Liberal Arts ) ျဖစ္လာတယ္။
မူလတန္းကေန ပါရဂူတန္းေတြအထိ ေက်ာင္းတိုုင္းမွာ သင္ရိုုးညြန္းတန္းေတြဟာ တေက်ာင္းနဲ့တေက်ာင္းလံုုး၀ မတူၾက ဘူး။ေက်ာင္းအုုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး အဖြ ဲ ့ ေတြက စိတ္ၾကိဳက္ သင္ရိုုးညြန္းတန္းကိုုေရးဆြဲ ျပီးသင္ၾကတယ္။
၂၀၀၇ ခုုနစ္ စရင္းအရ အေမရိကန္ မွာ စာသင္သား ၈၁.၅ သန္းရိွတယ္။ မူလတန္း ေက်ာင္းသားက ၃၇.၉ သန္း၊ အလယ္တန္း နဲ့ အထက္တန္း ေက်ာင္းသား ၂၆.၁ သန္း တကၠသိုုလ္ေကာလိပ္ ေက်ာင္းသား ၂၀.၅သန္း ရိွပါတယ္။ ေက်ာင္းသား ၈၅ ရာခုုိင္ႏႈန္း ဘြဲ ့ရၾကတယ္။ ၃၀ရာခိုုင္ႏႈန္းက ဘဲြ ့လြန္ နဲ ့ပါရဂူဘြဲအထိရရိွၾကတယ္။ ပညာေရးအအသံုုးစရိတ္က ၁.၃ ထီလီယံေဒၚလာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ၂၀၁၄ ခုုနစ္ စစ္ေရးအသံုုးစရိတ္က ၅၂၆ ဘီလီယံေဒၚလာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ပညာေရးအသံုုးစရိတ္က နစ္စဥ္စစ္စရိတ္ထက္ ပိုုသံုုးေနတာကိုုေတြ ့နိင္ပါတယ္။

အေမရိကန္ ပညာေရးအေၾကာင္း ကိုုအေမရိကန္ ေရာက္ျမန္မာမိသားစုုေတြထံမွာေမးျမန္းနိင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုု တေက်ာင္းတဂါထာ တရြာတပုုဒ္ဆန္းသင္ၾကားနည္း စနစ္ကိုုက အေမရိကန္ ပညာေရးရဲ့ထူးျခားခ်က္ျဖစ္ေနတယ္။
ဒီလိုု တေက်ာင္း တမ်ိဳးသင္ေနေပမဲ့ အေမရိကန္ ကေလးေတြဟာ သူမ်ားနိင္ငံက ကေလးေတြထက္ သာလြန္ ေနတာကိုုေတြ ့ရတယ္။ ကေလးေတြအားလံုုးရဲ ့ ဖတ္စာအုုပ္ေတြဟာ ခင္ဗ်ား အဖိုု ့မ်က္စိလွည္စရာျဖစ္တယ္။ ဖတ္စာအုုပ္ေတြကလဲ တမ်ိဳးစီျဖစ္ေနတယ္။ အဂၤလိပ္စာ၊ သခ်ာၤ၊ သမိုုင္း၊ သိပံၺ စတဲ့ဘာသာရပ္အသီးသီးရဲ့ သင္ရိုုးညြန္းတန္းစာအုုပ္ေတြဟာ တေက်ာင္းနဲ့တေက်ာင္း လံုုး၀ ကိုု မတူၾကပါဘူး။
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ေက်ာင္းေတြ သင္ရိုုးညြန္းတန္းမတူၾကေပမဲ့ တူညီတာတခုုေတာ့ရိွပါတယ္။ ဒီေက်ာင္းေပါင္းစံုုက ဆင္းလာတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြဟာ
၁။ ထူးခ်ြန္ထက္ျမက္ၾကတယ္။ ၂။ ရိုုးသားမႈ ၃။ တာ၀န္ ခံမႈ ၄။ မာနာေထာင္လြားမႈမရိွမႈ ၄။ သူတိုု့ နိင္ငံအေပၚခ်စ္မႈ ၅။ လူကိုုလူလိုုျမင္နိင္မႈ ေတြ က ဘယ္နစ္ငံနဲ့မွမတူေအာင္ ကိုုတူညီတဲ့အရည္အေသြးေတြျဖစ္လာတယ္။
ဒီထဲမွာ တခ်ိုု ့ေတြဟာ အထက္တန္း ပညာမျပီးဆံုုးတာ၊ လူေလလူလြင္ျဖစ္သြားတာ ေတြမရိွဘူးမဟုုတ္ရိွၾကပါတယ္။
တခ်ိဳ ့သူေတြက အေမရီကန္ ေက်ာင္းသား ေတြသခ်ာၤ ညံတာ၊ ဂ်ပန္၊တရုုပ္၊ အိႏၵယ အာရွေက်ာင္းသားေတြသခ်ာၤေတာ္တာကိုုေထာက္ျပၾကပါတယ္။ မွန္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ မေမ ့ဖိုု ့တခုုကေတာ့ သခ်ာၤ နဲ့ပတ္သက္လိုု ၊ သိပၺံပညာေတြနဲ့ပတ္သက္လုုိ ့ သီအိုုရီ အသစ္ေတြကိုု ထုုတ္လာတဲ့သူေတြက ေတာ့ အေမရိကန္ က ေက်ာင္း သားေတြ အေနာက္တိုုင္းသားေတြပဲျဖစ္ေနေသးတယ္ဆိုုတာကိုုေတြ ့ရပါတယ္။ ကြန္ျပဴတာေခတ္မွာလဲ အိႏၵယေတြ ကြန္ျပဴတာ ေတာ္ၾကတာကိုု ခ်ီးၾကဴးတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့အိႏၵယက တနစ္ကိုု ကြန္ျပဴတာ ပါရဂူဘြဲ ၅၀၀ ေမြးထုုတ္ နိင္ေနခ်ိန္မွာအေမရိကန္က တနစ္ကိုုတသိန္းေမြးထုုတ္ေနတဲ့အတြက္ ကြန္ျပဴတာနည္းပညာ ေတြမွာလဲ အေမရိကန္ ေက်ာင္းေတြက ေရွ ့ကိုုေရာက္ေနျပန္ပါတယ္။
အေမရိကန္ ေရာက္ျမန္မာမိသားစုုေတြကိုု က်ေနာ္မၾကာခန လည္ပတ္ တဲ့အခါမွာသူတိုု ့ကေလးငယ္ေတြနဲ့ေျပာျဖစ္ၾကတယ္။ ကေလးေတြဟာရိုုးသားလာတာကိုုေတြ့ရတယ္။ ရန္လုုိမႈေတြနည္းလာတယ္။ လူၾကီးေတြလိုုရင္ ့က်က္ေနတာကိုုေတြ ့ရပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္မိတ္ေဆြ ကိုုမူးသာရဲ ့ သမီးငယ္နစ္ဦးရဲ ၅ နစ္နဲ ့၇ နစ္ သမီးေလးေတြရဲ ့ျဖစ္ရပ္ကိုုေျပာျပျခင္တယ္။
တေန ့မွာ သမီးငယ္နစ္ေယာက္ မိုုက္ကရိုုေ၀့ထဲမွာ ပီစာ ကိုုေႏြးေနတံုုး ခလုုတ္မွားနိပ္ၾကတဲ့အတြက္ မိုုက္ကရိုုေ၀့ ပ်က္သြားတယ္။ အေမျပန္လာရင္ ဆူေတာ့မွာပဲဆိုုျပီး သူတိုု ့ညီအမ နစ္ေယာက္ စိုုးရိမ္ေနၾကတယ္ ။ ငိုုေနၾကတယ္။ ကိုုမူးသာလည္း ကေလးေတြ အငိုု တိတ္ေအာင္ ဆိုုျပီး ကဲ မငိုု ေနၾကတဲ့ အေမျပန္လာရင္ ေဖေဖလုုပ္တာ ဆိုုျပီး ေျပာလိုုက္မယ္ဆိုုျပီ ေခ်ာ့လုုိက္ေတာ့ အငယ္ဆံုုးသမီးေလးက ‘’you are lire’’ အေဖလိမ္တာပဲလုုိ့ေအာ္ဟစ္ေတာ့တယ္။ သမီးၾကီးကလဲ ‘’ this is not proper way ‘’ ဒါ နည္းလမ္း မမွန္ဘူး လိုု ့ျငင္းသတဲ့။ ကိုုမူးသာလဲ ဘာေျပာရမွန္းမသိေအာင္ကိုုျဖစ္သြားတယ္ဆိုုတယ္။ သူတိုု ့အေမျပန္လာေတာ့ သူတိုု ့လုုပ္မိတာကိုု ၀ံခံၾကသတဲ့။ ဒါဟာ အေမရိကန္ ပညာေရးရဲ ့ က သြန္သင္ခ်က္ေတြျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာ ျပည္ကိုုျပန္ေရာက္ေတာ့ ကေလးငယ္ေတြနဲ ့စကားေျပာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာကေလးငယ္ေတြဟာ လူၾကီးအၾကိဳက္ကိုု ေျပာ ၾကရတာ ကိုု ၀မ္းနည္းဖြယ္ေတြ ့ရပါတယ္။
အေမရိကန္ ေက်ာင္းေတြရဲ့ထူးျခားခ်က္တခုုကလဲ ကေလးေတြဟာ ဘာလူမ်ိဳး ဘာဘာသာ၀င္ပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ဒုုတိယမ်ိဳးဆက္ကေလးေတြဟာ အေမရိကန္ ေတြျဖစ္သြားၾကတယ္။ ကေလးေတြကိုုနိင္ငံေတာ္က စည္းရံုုးထားနိင္မႈျဖစ္တယ္။ ဒါက ဥေရာပနိင္ငံေတြထက္ေတာင္ ထူးျခားေနျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကေလးေတြ၊ လူၾကီးေတြ၊ ပညာရွင္ေတြနဲ ့စကားေျပာၾကရင္သူတိုု ့ဟာ အေမရိကန္ နိင္ငံေတာ္နဲ ့ တသံထည္းထြက္ေနၾကတယ္။ ေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ သင္ရိုုးညြန္းတန္း တေက်ာင္းတမ်ိုုးသင္ေပမဲ့ တသံထည္း ထြက္ေနျခင္းဟာ ထူးျခားမႈလိုုျဖစ္ေနတယ္။ ဘာသာလူမ်ိဳးခြဲျခားမႈမရိွၾကပဲ ဘုုရားေဟာသလုုိပဲ လူကိုုလူလိုုျမင္ေနၾကတာက အလြန္ထူးျခားမႈျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။
ဒီလိုုပညာေရးစနစ္ ျမန္မာ ျပည္မွာရိွခဲ့သလား လိုု ့ေမးရင္ ရိွခဲ့ပါတယ္လုုိ ့ က်ေနာ္ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္ ။ ေရွးျမန္မာမင္းမ်ားလက္ထက္က ပညာေရးဟာ ဒီထက္ေတာင္လြတ္လပ္မႈရိွခဲ့ၾကတယ္လိုု ့ က်ေနာ္ေျပာခ်င္တယ္။ ျမန္မာ ပညာေရးအစ ဘုုန္းေတာ္ၾကီးေက်ာင္းေတြက ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေရွးယခင္က ဘုုန္းေတာ္ၾကီးေက်ာင္းေတြကပဲ ကေလးေတြရဲ ့ပညာေရးကိုု ကိုုယ္နည္းကိုုယ္ဟန္ တာ၀န္ယူထားၾကတယ္။ ဘုုန္းေတာ္ၾကီးေက်ာင္းေတြက တေက်ာင္းကိုုတမ်ိဳး သင္ေပးခဲ့ၾကတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုုေက်ာင္းေတြေၾကာင့္ ေတာင္ဖီလာဆရာေတာ္၊နတ္မီးလင္းဆရာေတာ္ တိုု ့ရဲ ့ေက်ာင္းေတြေၾကာင့္ ရွင္မဟာရဌသာရ၊ ရွင္မဟာသီလ၀ံသ၊ နတ္ရွင္ေနာင္၊ ေယာမင္းၾကီး ဦးဘိုုးလိႈင္တိုု ့လိုု ရဟန္း ပညာရိွ၊ လူပညာရိွေတြ ေတြေမြးထုုတ္နိင္ခဲ့ၾကတာျဖစ္တယ္။
ဘုုန္းေတာ္ၾကီးေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ သင္ရိုုးညြန္းတန္းတခုုတည္းကိုုသင္ၾကားခဲ့ၾကတာမဟုုတ္ပါဘူး။ အတြက္အခ်က္ေတြ၊ အေရးအဖတ္ အေျပာေတြ၊ စာရိတၱဆိုုင္ရာသင္ၾကားမႈေတြကိုုဘုုန္းေတာ္ၾကီးေတြက ကိုုယ္ေက်ာင္းနဲ့ ကိုု္ယ္ နည္းကိုုယ္ဟန္နဲသင္ခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ လြတ္လပ္ေရးရျပီးတဲ့အခါမွာ ဦးႏုုအစိုုးရလက္ထက္မွာလဲ ျမန္မာ ပညာေ၇းဟာ ဒီမိုုကေရစီပညာေရးစနစ္ျဖစ္တယ္။ မူလတန္း အထက္တန္း သင္ရိုုးညြန္းတန္းက တခုတမ်ိုုးတည္းျဖစ္ိေပမဲ့လြတ္လပ္စြာ သင္ၾကားနိင္ၾကတယ္။ အလြတ္သင္ေက်ာင္းေတြလဲရိွခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ အလြတ္သင္ေက်ာင္းေတြကအရည္အေသြးျမင့္ၾကတယ္။ စာေရးဆရာ ေသာ္တာေဆြဟာ အသက္ၾကီးမွာအလြတ္သင္ေက်ာင္းတခုုကေန ပညာသင္ၾကားခဲ့တယ္။ ဒီေက်ာင္းက ေတာ္ေတာ္ေကာင္းပုုံရတယ္။ ေသာ္တာေဆြဟာ ခ်ားလ္ဒစ္ကင္းရဲ ့ the great expectation လိုုဂႏ၀င္ ၀ထၱဳ ၾကီးကိုု ေမ်ာ္တလင့္လင္ ဆိုုျပီးဘာသာျပန္နိင္ခဲ့တဲ့အထိ ျဖစ္ခဲ့တာဟာ အလြတ္သင္ေက်ာင္းရဲ ့မွာသင္ခဲ့တဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္စာ ပညာေရး ေၾကာင့္လိုု ့ေျပာနိင္တယ္။
ျမန္မာ ျပည္မွာ တကယ္ဒီမိုုကေရစီရိွခဲ့မယ္ဆိုုရင္ ေရနံေခ်ာင္းျမိုု ့သားကိုုေမာင္ေမာင္၀မ္းဟာ အဂၤလိပ္စာသင္တန္းေက်ာင္း ေလးကေန ကေလးေတြကိုုလူေတာ္လူေမာ္ေတြေမြးထုုတ္နိင္မွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာေတြဟာ ေတာ္ၾကတယ္။
အေမရိကန္ နိင္ငံမွာ ဆူခ်ီ အစားေသာက္က ေပၚျပဴလာျဖစ္ေနတယ္။ ဆူခ်ီစားတာဟာ လူတန္းစားတရပ္လုုိျဖစ္ေနတယ္။ ဆူခ်ီ စားတဲ့သူေတြဟာ ၀င္ေငြေကာင္းတဲ့သူ၊ ေတာ္တဲ့သူ smart ျဖစ္တဲ့သူလိုု ့ အဓိပါတယ္ေတာင္ထြက္ေနပါတယ္။ ဘာျဖစ္လိုု ့လဲဆိုုေတာ့ က်မၼာေရးအတြက္ ေကာင္းတယ္။ ဆူခ်ီဟာ ေစ်းၾကီးတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ၀င္ေငြေကာင္းတဲ့သူပဲစားၾကတယ္ဆိုုတဲ့သေဘာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဂုုဏ္ယူစရာေကာင္းတာကေတာ့ အေမရိကန္ တနိင္ငံလံုုး ဆူခ်ီ ေလာကၾကီးျဖစ္လာေအာင္ လုုပ္တဲ့အထဲမွာ ျမန္မာ လူငယ္ေတြပါ၀င္ေနျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။ ဆူခ်ီ စီးပြားေရးလုုပ္ငန္းၾကီးမွာ အမ်ားစုုက ၁၉ ၈၈ခုုနစ္ ၾကမွာ ထြက္လာၾကတဲ့ ျမန္မာေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ိဳးဆက္ေတြျဖစ္ေနျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ပိုုင္ရွင္ က ဂ်ပန္ လူမ်ိဳးေတြျဖစ္ေပမဲ ့၀န္ထမ္းေတြက ျမန္မာ ေတြျဖစ္ေနတယ္။
ေနာက္တခုုက ျမန္မာ ေတြဟာ အေျခခံရိုုးသားမႈရိွေနၾကေသåးတယ္။ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုုမွာ နယူးေယာက္ျပည္နယ္ဟာအခ်မ္းသာဆံုုးျပည္နယ္။ ဒီျပည္နယ္မွာနယူးေယာက္ျုုမိုု ့မက္ဟက္တန္ ရပ္ကြက္က အခ်မ္းသာဆံုုးေနရာျဖစ္တယ္။ မက္ဟက္တန္ထဲမွာအမွတ္ ၅ လမ္္းမွာ (Fifth Ave ) က ကမၻာလွည့္ေတြ ေရာက္လာရင္ ဒီလမ္းမွာ လမ္းေလ်ာက္ဘူးမွ နယူးေယာက္ကိုုလာရၾကိဳးနပ္တယ္လိုု ့ခံယူၾကတယ္။ ဘာျဖစ္လိုု ့လဲ ဆိုုေတာ့ အမွတ္ ၅ လမ္းရဲ ့ ကမၻာေက်ာ္ စိန္ေရႊ ရတနာ ဆိုုင္ေတြ ေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီရတနာဆိုုင္ေတြမွာလဲ ၀န္ထမ္းအမ်ားစုုက ျမန္မာ လူငယ္ေတြျဖစ္လာပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာ ဆိုုရင္အလုုပ္ရဖုုိ ့ မ်ားေနပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ တခါက မိတ္ေဆြတဦးကိုု ဖံုုးဆက္တာ ဖံုုးမွားျပီးရတနာဆိုုင္ကိုုေရာက္သြားတယ္။ ျမန္မာ သူငယ္ခ်င္းကိုုေမးေတာ့ ဖံုုးမွားေနေၾကာင္းေျပာတယ္။ သူက မင္းျမန္မာလား ဆိုုေတာ့ ဟုုတ္ပါတယ္ လုုိ ့ေျပာေတာ့ တဖက္က ဆိုုင္ရွင္က Burmese very good လိုု ့ျပန္ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုုေျပာ ေတာ့ဂုုဏ္ယူရပါတယ္။ ရတနာလုုပ္ငန္းဆိုုတာ စိတ္ခ်ယံုုၾကည္မႈ အမ်ားၾကီးလိုုအပ္တာကိုုး။ ဒီစံခ်ိန္ကိုုျမန္မာေတြဆက္လက္ထိမ္းထားနိင္ၾကပါေစလုုိ ့ဆုုေတာင္းပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာေတြဟာ ေတာ္ၾကတယ္။ထက္ျမက္ၾကတယ္။ ျမန္မာေတြကိုု တံုုးသြားေအာင္ လုုပ္လိုုက္တဲ့တရားခံက ဦးေန၀င္းပဲ။ သူလက္ထက္ကေနစျပီးျမန္မာေတြကိုု ေၾကာက္တုုံးေတြျဖစ္ေအာင္လုုပ္ခဲ့တာပါ။ က်ေနာ္ ျမန္မာ ျပည္ကိုုေရာက္စဥ္က အစိုုးရ၀န္ထမ္းေတြ နဲ ့ စကားေျပာခြင့္ၾကံဳခဲ့တယ္။ သတိျပဳမိတာက သူတိုု ့ဟာထူးခ်ြန္တဲ့အရည္အေသြးေတြရိွေနၾကေသးျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ စစ္ဗိုုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ျပဳတ္ေတြ က ၀န္ၾကီးဌာန အသီးသီးမွာ ေနရာ ေကာင္းေတြယူထားျပီး အေၾကာက္တရားနဲ ့ ပ်က္စီးျခင္းငါးပါးတရားေတြကိုု ၀န္ထမ္းေတြထဲသြပ္သြင္းလုုိက္တဲ့အတြက္ ၀န္ထမ္းေတြဟာေတာ္ျခင္ရဲ ့နဲ့ေၾကာက္တံုုးဘ၀ ကိုုက်ေရာက္သြားရျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာ ပညာေရးဟာ ေဒါက္တာ ဇာနည္ ေျပာသလိုု ဖ်က္ဆီးစရာမလိုုေတာ့ေအာင္ ပ်က္စီးသြားရေလျပီဆိုုသလိုုျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တိုု ့ပညာေရးကိုု ျပန္လည္တည္ေဆာက္ရမယ္။
တကၠသိုုလ္ေကာ္လိပ္ေတြဟာလြတ္လပ္တဲ့ စီမံခန္ ့ခြဲ မႈ ရိွရမယ္။ ေက်ာင္းတိုုင္းမွာလြတ္လပ္စြာသင္ၾကားခြင့္ရိွရမယ္။ ကိုုယ္ၾကိဳက္သလိုုကိုုယ္သင္ပိုုင္ခြင့္ရိွရမယ္။ မ္ိမိ၀ါသနာပါရာကိုုသင္ယူခြင့္ရိွရမယ္။ ပညာေရးရဲ ့အနစ္သာရ က တီထြင္ၾကံဆနိင္မႈ ( Creativity ) စာရိတၱေကာင္းမြန္ မႈ ( Moral Value) တာ၀န္သိမႈေတြ ( Responsibility ) လူသား၀ါဒ ( Humanity) ရိွမႈ ဆိုုတာေတြ ရိွရမယ္။

အခုု ေက်ာင္းသားေတြ ပညာေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈၾကီးကိုုလုုပ္ေနၾကပါျပီ။ ေၾကာက္တံုုး ဘ၀က လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈၾကီးလိုု့ေျပာလုုိ ့ရပါတယ္။
ဒီလႈပ္ရွားမႈကိုု လူတိုုင္း လူတိုုင္ း ပါ၀င္ေထာက္ခံရမယ္။ ဒါဟာ သမိုုင္း၀င္လႈပ္ရွားမႈၾကီးျဖစ္တယ္။ က်ေနာ္တိုု ့ဟာ ကိုုယ္အခြင့္အေရးဆံုုးရံႈးေနတာေတြကိုု သည္းခံ နိင္ပါတယ္။ နိင္ငံေရးရဲ ့ အေပးအယူအေလ်ာ့အတင္းေတြကိုုလက္ခံနိင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ က်ေနာ္တုုိ ့သားသမီးေတြ ရဲ ့ပညာတတ္ျဖစ္ဖိုု ့ကေတာ့ တျပားသားမွ အေလ်ာ့မခံနိင္ဘူးလုုိ ့ အတိအလင္းေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။ 

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ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ ၁၅၊ ၂၀၁၅.

Credit to: Moe Thee Zun 
Copy from his Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/moethee.zun?fref=photo

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10 reasons to learn English

23-07-2013 by carmen.santillana

Learn English, General English

Learning English is important and people all over the world decide to study it as a second language. Many countries include English as a second language in their school syllabus and children start learning English at a young age.
However, do you know why learning English is so important? Here are ten good reasons to study English.

1. English is the most commonly spoken language in the world. One out of five people can speak or at least understand English!
    
2. English is the language of science, of aviation, computers, diplomacy, and tourism. Knowing English increases your chances of getting a good job in a multinational company within your home country or of finding work abroad.
    
3. English is the official language of 53 countries. That is a lot of people to meet and speak to.
    
4. English is spoken as a first language by around 400 million people around the world.
    
5. English is the language of the media industry. If you speak English, you won’t need to rely on translations and subtitles anymore to enjoy your favourite books, songs, films and TV shows.
    
6. English is also the language of the Internet. Many websites are written in English – you will be able to understand them and to take part in forums and discussions.
    
7. English is based on a simple alphabet and it is fairly quick and easy to learn compared to other languages.
    
8. English is not only useful — it gives you a lot of satisfaction. Making progress feels great. You will enjoy learning English, if you remember that every hour you spend gets you closer to perfection.
    
9. Since English is spoken in so many different countries there are thousands of schools around the world that offer programmes in English. If you speak English, there’re lots of opportunities for you to find an appropriate school and course to suit your academic needs.
    
10. Because it’s fun! By learning English, you will also learn about other cultures. Few experiences will make you grow as a person more than learning the values, habits and way of life in a culture that is different from yours.

If you want to learn English, contact us to speak to a member of our team about our courses.

Source: http://www.experienceenglish.com/social-english/articles/10-reasons-learn-english 

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British Council IELTS 25th Anniversary Scholarship 2014

The British Council IELTS Scholarships are awarded to high-calibre individuals with motivation to develop their career and who demonstrate the potential to contribute to society what they have gained from their study experience. IELTS scholars are committed to networking within the IELTS community and sharing their experience with other IELTS candidates. The scholarship enables students to study any chosen course in an undergraduate or postgraduate programme of a higher institution that accepts IELTS as part of its admission requirements.
Up to two students in Burma will each receive GBP 2,500.
The top three scholars in the East Asia region will each receive GBP 25,000.
The scholarship will go towards tuition fee of the scholars' chosen courses, to be paid directly to the institutions.
*East Asia region includes China, Hong Kong & Macau, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Burma, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam

IMPORTANT DATES

Application period: 7 April 2014 - 6 June 2014
Shortlisting: 9 - 13 June 2014
Interviews: 16 - 20 June 2014
Letter of offer from university received by: 27 June 2014
Results announcement: mid - end July 2014
Award Ceremony: end July - mid August 2014

TO QUALIFY FOR AN IELTS SCHOLARSHIP, YOU MUST:

• currently live in Burma
• begin undergraduate or postgraduate study outside Burma in 2014 (academic year)
• attend a higher educational institution that accepts IELTS as part of its admission requirements
• have taken your most recent IELTS test at the British Council, with a minimum band score of 6 in each of the four component parts of the test
• be able to provide an acceptance letter from the attending institution by 27 June 2014. 

HOW TO APPLY?

1. Take an IELTS test at a British Council authorised centre and receive your scores 
2. Download and complete the application form
3. An original hard copy of your application should be sent to:  IELTS Scholarship
   British Council
   78, Kanna Road
   Rangoon, Burma
   
4. Your completed application must be received before 6 June 2014.

SELECTION CRITERIA

• Applications are initially reviewed against the British Council IELTS scholarship eligibility criteria and assessed by British Council officers 
• Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a face-to-face video-taped interview, where you will be assessed by a panel of senior managers and external raters from the higher education and/or corporate sectors in Hong Kong. 

APPLICATION DEADLINE

6 June 2014
For further information, please read the FAQ.

Source: http://www.britishcouncil.org.mm/ielts-scholarship

ေဒၚလာ ေလးေသာင္းတန္ စေကာလားရွစ္

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ပညာသင္စရိတ္ေလွ်ာက္ၿပီး ေက်ာင္းတက္ဖုိ႔ စီစဥ္ေနသူမ်ားအတြက္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ၿဗိတိသွ်ေကာင္စီက စာတေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ထားပါတယ္။
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ဧၿပီလဆန္းမွာ ထုတ္ျပန္တ့ဲ ဒီစာကုိ ကူးယူ ေဖာ္ျပလုိက္ပါတယ္။
ျဗိတိသွ်ေကာင္စီမွ တစ္ဦးလွ်င္ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၄၁,၀၀၀ ရႏိုင္သည့္ IELTS Scholarship မ်ားေပးမည္
ျဗိတိသွ်ေကာင္စီ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအား ႏိုင္ငံတကာပညာေရး အေတြ႕အၾကဳံ ပိုမိုရရွိေစရန္ ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္မွ စ၍ IELTS Scholarship မ်ား ႏွစ္စဥ္ ေပးသြားမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ထားပါသည္။
အဆိုပါ IELTS Scholarship မွာအမ်ိဳးအစား ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးရွိကာ ပထမတစ္မ်ိဳးမွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ေနထိုင္ေသာ ေက်ာင္းသား ႏွစ္ေယာက္အား တစ္ဦးလွ်င္ စတာလင္ေပါင္ ၂၅၀၀ (အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၄,၁၀၀ ခန္႕) အထိ ေပးသြားမည္ျဖစ္ျပီး
အျခားဒုတိယတစ္မ်ိဳးမွာ အေရွ႕အာရွတြင္ ရွိေသာ ေက်ာင္းသား ေနာက္ထပ္ သံုးေယာက္အား တစ္ဦးလွ်င္ စတာလင္ ေပါင္ ၂၅,၀၀၀ (အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၄၁,၀၀၀ ခန္႕) စီ ေပးသြားမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
Scholarship ရရွိေသာ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအတြက္ ၎တို႕တက္မည့္ ေက်ာင္းသို႕ တိုက္႐ိုက္ ေငြေၾကးေပးသြင္း ေပးသြားမည္ျဖစ္သည္။
အေရွ႕ အာရွႏိုင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ ျမန္မာ၊ တရုတ္၊ ေဟာင္ေကာင္၊ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား၊ ဂ်ပန္၊ ကိုရီးယား၊ မေလးရွား၊ ဖိလစ္ပိုင္၊ စကၤာပူ၊ ထိုင္ဝမ္၊ ထိုင္း ႏွင့္ ဗီယက္နမ္ တို႕ ပါရွိပါသည္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ IELTS Scholarship ေလွ်ာက္ထားသူမ်ားမွာ -
• ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ လက္ရွိ ေနထိုင္သူ
• ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံျပင္ပတြင္ ၂၀၁၄ ပညာသင္ႏွစ္မွ စ၍ ဘြဲ႔ၾကိဳ (undergraduate) ႏွင့္ ဘြဲ႔လြန္ (postgraduate) ပညာသင္ၾကားမည့္သူ
• IELTS လက္မွတ္အား ဝင္ခြင့္လိုအပ္ခ်က္ တစ္ခုအေနျဖင့္ လက္ခံေသာတကၠသိုလ္တြင္ တက္မည့္သူ
• အနည္းဆုံး IELTS overall band score 6 ရရွိသူ
• IELTS စာေမးပြဲအား ျဗိတိသွ်ေကာင္စီ တြင္ ေျဖဆိုထားသူ
• ၂၀၁၄ ဇြန္လ ၂၇ မတိုင္မီ မိမိေလွ်ာက္ထားေသာ တကၠသိုလ္မွ ဝင္ခြင့္အေထာက္အထား (acceptance letter) ကို ျပႏိုင္သူ ျဖစ္ရပါမည္။
Scholarship ေလွ်ာက္လႊာ ႏွင့္ အေသးစိတ္အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားအား ျဗိတိသွ်ေကာင္စီဝက္ဗ္ဆိုက္ http://www.britishcouncil.org.mm/ielts-scholarship တြင္
download ရယူႏိုင္ျပီး ျဖည့္သြင္းျပီးေသာ ေလွ်ာက္လႊာမ်ားကို ၂၀၁၄ ဇြန္လ ၆ရက္ မတိုင္မီ ေပးပို႕ ေပးရမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အျခားသိလိုသည္မ်ားကို ျဗိတိသွ်ေကာင္စီ ဝက္ဗ္ဆိုက္ ႏွင့္ Myanmar Network တြင္ ၾကည့္႐ႈႏိုင္ပါသည္။
ျဗိတိသွ်ေကာင္စီ ျမန္မာ၏ စာေမးပြဲဌာန မန္ေနဂ်ာ ေဒၚအိအိမြန္ မွ IELTS စာေမးပြဲအား ေျဖေသာ သူမ်ား တစ္ႏွစ္ထက္ တစ္ႏွစ္ မ်ားျပားလာေၾကာင္း၊ စာေမးပြဲေျဖသူ ဦးေရမွာ ယခုႏွစ္တြင္ ၁၀ ရာခိုင္ႏွုန္း ပိုမိုမ်ားလာေၾကာင္း ေျပာပါသည္။
၎မွ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ အလုပ္အကိုင္အခြင့္အလမ္း မ်ားျပားလာျပီး ႏိုင္ငံျခားတြင္ ေက်ာင္းတက္လိုသူလည္း မ်ားျပားလာေသာေၾကာင့္ ေနာက္ႏွစ္မ်ားတြင္ IELTS စာေမးပြဲ ေျဖဆိုသူ ယခုထက္ပိုမ်ားလာမည္ဟု ခန္႕မွန္းထားေၾကာင္း၊
စာေမးပြဲေျဖဆိုရန္ လိုအပ္ေသာ အကူအညီမ်ား၊ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကိုလည္း ျဗိတိသွ်ေကာင္စီမွ အခ်ိန္ႏွင့္တစ္ေျပးညီ ထုတ္ျပန္ေပးသြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားသြားပါသည္။
IELTS စာေမးပြဲအား လစဥ္ ရန္ကုန္ ႏွင့္ မႏၲေလးျမိဳ႕တို႕တြင္ ေျဖဆိုႏိုင္္ျပီး စာေမးပြဲအတြက္ လိုအပ္ေသာ စာအုပ္ႏွင့္ ပစၥည္းမ်ားကို ျဗိတိသွ်ေကာင္စီ စာၾကည့္တိုက္မ်ားတြင္ ျပည့္စံုစြာ ရရွိႏိုင္ပါသည္။
IELTS စာေမးပြဲကို ေျဖဆိုလိုသူမ်ား (သို႕မဟုတ္) IELTS စာေမးပြဲအား စိတ္ဝင္စားသူမ်ားသည္ သိလိုသည္မ်ားကို www.takeielts.org တြင္ ၾကည့္႐ႈႏိုင္ပါသည္။
IELTS စာေမးပြဲေျဖဆိုမည့္သူမ်ား ႏွင့္ စာေမးပြဲအားေလ့က်င့္လိုသူမ်ားအတြက္ အြန္လိုင္းမွ ၁၀ နာရီစာ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းမ်ားအား အခမဲ့ဝင္ေရာက္ ေလ့လာႏိုင္သည့္အျပင္ IELTS ကို ေျဖဆိုရန္ စာရင္းသြင္းျပီးပါက နာရီ ၃၀ စာ ေလက်င့္ခန္းမ်ားအား အခမဲ့ရရွိပါမည္။
ပိုမိုေလ့က်င့္လိုပါက နာရီ ၁၂၀ စာ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းမ်ားကိုလည္း အြန္လိုင္းမွဝယ္ယူ ေလ့က်င့္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။
IELTS စာေမးပြဲ ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ သိလိုသည္မ်ားကို Facebook (သို႕မဟုတ္) Myanmar Network တြင္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ ျဗိတိသွ်ေကာင္စီရုံးမ်ားသို႕ ဖုန္းျဖင့္လည္းေကာင္း၊ မိမိ ကိုယ္တိုင္လာေရာက္၍ လည္းေကာင္း ေမးျမန္းႏိုင္ပါသည္။

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ADB-Japan Scholarship Program

Terms Of Awards

Scholarships are for a period of one to two years and are awarded at designated institutions (DIs) in the Asia and Pacific region. Studies in economics, business and management, science and technology and other development-related fields are eligible. The maximum duration of scholarship award is two years for the MA, MS, & MBA Program. In cases where a PhD program is approved, the duration is also two years.
Remarks: Government of Japan has made clear that it would support only up to 2 years, consistent with similar assistance that it is coursing through other international development institutions.

Renewal of Scholarships

• The initial scholarship period is one year. An appropriate extension for the second year of study shall be conditional on the scholar's maintaining a satisfactory level of performance as determined by the DI.
• Extension of scholarships will not be allowed, in principle, beyond the two-year period.
• Scholarships maybe suspended for a maximum of twelve months or two semesters, if deemede necessary for valid reasons such as health or family reasons.
• The total number of scholarship awards is reviewed and set yearly by ADB. Within the total number of scholars, ADB will approve new scholars based upon the recommendation of DIs when incumbent scholars complete studies or withdraw their scholarships.

Deferment of Awards

• Deferment of awards may be granted for up to a maximum of six months or one semester, at the discretion of the DI. The DI should submit the request for deferral to the ADB. Deferrals maybe approve for valid reasons, including pregnancy, unresolved family issues, or failure to obtain a visa. If a student cannot take upt the offer within one year after the year for which it is awarded, he/she has to reapply for the scholarship.

Replacement of Dropouts

• Replacement of scholars who have dropped from the Program is not allowed during the academic year.

Transfer of Scholarships

• A transfer from one course of study to another, or to another institution, is not allowed.

Special Conditions

• In accepting the ADB-JSP scholarship, scholars should commit themselves to return to, and work in their home countries for a period of at least 2 years after completion of their studies.
• In accepting the ADB-JSP scholarship, scholars consent to the employment restriction policy of the ADB-JSP and acknowledge that they will not be able to work at ADB for two years after completion of their academic programs.

Termination of Scholarships

• Scholarships may be terminated upon the recommendation of the DI, at anytime, for failure to make satisfactory academic progress, failure to comply with the laws of the host country (location of DI), misconduct, or breaches of the conditions of the ADB-JSP or the student visa.

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Selection

Eligibility Requirements:

• A national of an ADB borrowing member country (applicants from countries that are no longer borrowing from ADB are not eligible for the ADB-JSP Scholarship).
• Gained admission to an approved MA/PhD course at a DI.
• A bachelor's degree or its equivalent with superior academic record.
• At least two (2) years of full-time professional working experience (acquired after a university degree) at a time of application.
• Proficiency in oral and written English communication skills to be able to pursue studies.
• Not more than 35 years old at the time of application. In exceptional cases, for programs which are appropriate for senior officials and managers, the age limit is 45 years old.
• In good health.
• Should agree to return to his/her home county after completion of studies under the Program.
• Executive Directors, Alternate Directors, management and staff of ADB, consultants, and relatives of the aforementioned are not eligible for the Scholarship.
• Staff of DIs are not eligible for the Scholarship.
• Applicants living or working in a country other than his/her home country are not eligible for the scholarships.
• ADB-JSP does not support applicants who are already enrolled in graduate degree programs.
• ADB-JSP does not sponsor undergraduate studies, distance learning programs, short-term training, conferences, seminars, thesis writing, and research projects.

Selection Criteria:

• Priority to the ranking, or order of merit, proposed by the DIs.
• Applicants with less than two years of work experience will not be selected.
• Preference to women candidates.
• Preference to applicants with lesser financial capacity. Family income should be not more than USD50, 000 per year and individual income should not be more than USD25,000 per year.
• The Program will, in principle, not support applicants who have previously studied abroad.
• The Program will, in principle, not support applicants who are pursuing a second MA or a second PhD degree.
• Candidates who are applying at a DI in their own country may not be selected.
• Diversification of nationality in the overall Program as well as at each DI level will be considered.
• The Program encourages studies in line with core areas of ADB's Strategy 2020, which address poverty reduction through infrastructure, environment, regional cooperation and integration, finance sector development, and education. Strategy 2020, ADB's strategy, sets ADB's strategic course for its operations to the year 2020. For more details, please refer to the website: http://www.adb.org./Strategy2020/default.asp

Procedures for Applying:

• Applicants should request information and application forms from the chosen DI. Applicants are encouraged to access various resources, including the DI's website & handbooks, and DI information sessions held in-country, to assist them in making an informed decision on the DI and course they wish to undertake.
• Applicants should indicate to the DI that they are applying for admission and that they would like to be considered for the ADB-JSP Scholarship. The completed DI application form and required documentation, including the ADB-JSP Information Sheet form, should be submitted to the DI. Applicants must ensure that they submit accurate and complete documentation. Failure to do so may result in an application not being processed or to an award being terminated if documentation or information provided is later determined to be false. Applicants are required to submit their latest Income Tax Return or Certification of their Annual Salary/Monthly Salary, whichever is available. They should also submit a Certification of Family Income (Parent's Income/Spouse if married).
• The DI will screen and rank the applicants, based on its own selection criteria, keeping in view the eligibility requirements and selection criteria of the ADB. In the evaluation process, the DI may contact the candidates for further information. The DI will then submit its ranked list of applicants to ADB, including a description of the score/grading system which is the basis for the ranking.
• ADB will review the submission from the DIs and recommend awardees based on the selection criteria of ADB to the Executive Director of Japan for formal approval.
• Upon approval by the Executive Director of Japan, ADB will advise DIs on the successful candidates.
• The DI will inform all applicants of the outcome of the selection process and begin to make arrangements for the awardees take up their scholarships.
• The DIs will arrange for the signing of the Acceptance of Scholarship Award by awardee wherein the scholars agree that after completion of their study, they will return to their home country.
• ADB will send an appropriate congratulatory letter to each scholar.

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THE SCHOLARSHIP

Coverage

• Tuition fees (actual costs)
• Housing (based on actual cost of dormitory housing or a reasonable allowance for appropriate off campus housing—to be agreed upon between each DI and ADB).
• Subsistence Allowance (a flat allowance to be agreed upon between each DI and ADB).
• Student Medical and accident insurance (actual costs).
• Books (a flat allowance to be agreed upon between each DI and ADB).
• Economy class air travel at most direct route to and from the DI and the awardee’s home country (actual costs).
• Miscellaneous expenses related to travel such as visa fees, airport taxes, luggage allowance, etc. (a flat allowance).
• Excess luggage up to 20 kgs may be financed during return travel to the home country (actual costs).
• Thesis/Research Allowance is intended to cover the scholar's research expenditures and can be used for such expenditure items as photocopying, school supplies, typing and computer charges, postage, communications, binding charges, local travel costs and accommodation for out-of-town trips. (a flat allowance)
• Scholars are expected to have sufficient skills in language and computer to undertake their study program. However, in special cases where additional training is deemed necessary, expenditures incurred to improve language proficiency and computer literacy may be covered under the scholarship (actual costs).
• The ADB-JSP does not cover: expenses for the scholar family; extra-curricular courses or training; additional travel during the course of study program; additional expenses related to supplementary educational materials, field trips, or participation in workshops, seminars, or internships while at the DI or purchase of educational equipment such as computers.

Policies and Procedures

• The ADB-JSP Scholarship is for the scholar only and does not cover expenses for the scholar's dependents.
• DIs are encouraged to provide tuition fee discounts to outstanding scholars, as agreed with ADB.
• Preparatory/bridging courses, such as English proficiency or computer literacy courses, can be funded by ADB-JSP. These courses should be undertaken within the DI.
• Expenses relating to activities not directly related to the pursuit of the degree, such as attendance in a conference and other similar activities, are not financed under the ADB-JSP.
• Subsistence allowances are normally given to the scholars at the beginning of each month. However, DIs may disburse allowances according to their practice.
• For expenses related to air travels, DIs should provide ADB with a copy of the scholars’ air tickets from their home countries to DIs. Return travel is paid upon successful completion of studies.
• An establishment allowance may be provided to new scholars to help with initial costs of setting up their temporary home at the DI. This is paid only once at the start of the scholarship (a flat allowance).
• The ADB-JSP scholarship only supplements, and does not duplicate, any other source of financial support/fellowship the scholar might have. Scholars must inform the ADB-JSP if they have other sources of scholarships funds. The ADB-JSP stipend may be withdrawn completely or partially if during the scholarship period the program has evidence of additional sources of support.

For more details on ADB-JSP please visit http://www.adb.org/JSP/default.asp

Source: http://www.serd.ait.ac.th/wpserd/adb-japan-scholarship-program/

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AIDS 2014: SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

The deadline is 13 February 2014, 24:00 CET. To apply for a scholarship, please click here to login to the conference profile.

The conference organizers are committed to making AIDS 2014 accessible to people from resource-limited settings and communities, researchers, young people, community activists and civil society representatives.

For AIDS 2012 in Washington, D.C. more than 10,000 applications were received and just over 850 scholarships were offered. For AIDS 2014 the same share of the total conference budget has been allocated scholarships.

International Scholarship Programme

The International Scholarship Programme is open to everyone around the world working or volunteering in the field of HIV and AIDS.

Priority will be given to those whose participation will help enhance their work in their own communities, to those who are able to assist in the transfer of skills and knowledge acquired at the conference, and to those whose abstract, workshop or programme activity submission has been selected. Scholarship selection will be based on a non-biased scoring system established in advanced. A Scholarship Review Committee will contribute to the reviewing and scoring of the applications.

Although every attempt will be made to assist as many people as possible, we regret that there are only a limited number of international scholarships available. On average, less than 10% of applicants are awarded a scholarship. Applicants are therefore strongly encouraged to seek other funding as well.

Those interested in applying for an International Scholarship must complete the online International Scholarship application form through their conference profile between 5 December 2013 and 13 February 2014, 24:00 CET. Click here to see questions included in the International Scholarship application form.

Those submitting an abstract, workshop and/or programme activity proposal and interested in applying for an International Scholarship should start their scholarship request through their conference profile. Applicants will then receive instructions on how to link their abstract, workshop and/or programme activity to their scholarship application.

International Scholarship applicants will be asked to submit a letter of recommendation after completing the scholarship application form. No international application will be accepted without submission of the letter of recommendation.

Media Scholarship Programme

A very limited number of scholarships will also be available for media representatives from around the world. Media scholarship applicants will be asked to provide media accreditation and supporting documents. No media application will be accepted without submission of the required supporting documentation.

Those interested in applying for a Media Scholarship must complete the online Media Scholarship application form through their conference profile between 5 December 2013 and 13 February 2014, 24:00 CET. Click here to see questions included in the Media Scholarship application form.

Selected Media Scholarship recipients will be asked to perform the following tasks:

• Production of an article/tv/radio broadcast programme focused on AIDS 2014 before July 2014. The article/programme must be published within the recipient’s country or region and a link to it needs to be sent to media@aids2014.org . Please note that that recipients will be provided with an information pack to help them with their article development.
• Production of at least 2 articles/TV/radio broadcast programmes during the conference. Links to them need to be sent to media@aids2014.org by 15 August 2014.
• Compulsory attendance to the pre-conference media training which will be held at the conference venue (media centre) on Sunday 20 July in the morning.
• During the conference, compulsory daily attendance to a briefing on daily events with AIDS 2014 communications representatives.

Application Criteria

International scholarship applications are open to anyone working or volunteering in the field of HIV who are at least 16 years of age at the time of the conference (20 July 2014). Click here to look through the International Scholarship terms and conditions.

Media scholarship applications are open to all bona fide journalists who are at least 16 years of age at the time of the conference (20 July 2014). Click here to look through the Media Scholarship terms and conditions.

Most of the questions asked on the application form are related to personal details and work experience. There are also questions which ask for further details regarding the applicant's organization, occupation or involvement in the field of HIV, motivation to attend the conference and how the applicant's organization or community would benefit from the scholarship.

Types of Support

Scholarship applicants will be able to request a full or partial scholarship.
A full scholarship includes:

• Registration fee for the conference (include access to all sessions and exhibitions);
• Travel (pre-paid airfare at the lowest fare available, from the nearest international airport);
• Accommodation (shared in a budget hotel or dorm for the days of the conference);
• Modest daily living allowance for the duration of the conference (20-25 July 2014, USD 55 per day).

A partial scholarship includes any combination of the above.

Please note that funding is limited and demand for scholarships is high. Scholarship applicants are therefore encouraged to seek other funding as well.

Source:http://www.aids2014.org/scholarships.aspx

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Childs Dream: University Scholarship Programme (USP)

We aim at enabling young adults from Myanmar and Laos to study on undergraduate level at accredited universities in Thailand and in Laos.

Interested students from Myanmar can download a scholarship application form here (deadline for 2014-15: Friday, 28 February 2014). General information on Myanmar focused opportunities are available here.

In Laos we exclusively support students from Laotian provinces we operate in. Students interested in undergraduate studies in Laos must have attended one of the high schools we have built. 

Existing or interested donors of university scholarships can write to Manuela Bianchi. 

Source: For more information and Application form. <click here>

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NMFA SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MYANMAR 2014

About The Scholarship Program

Recognizing that education is essential for sustainable development, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NMFA) is offering scholarships to eligible Myanmar citizens for post-graduate studies at the Asian Institute of Technology. Through this scholarship program, the Royal Norwegian Government seeks to contribute to capacity development in all relevant sectors for the sustainable transformation of Myanmar into a modern nation that builds its own sustainable future.

The scholarship provides support for students to complete a Master degree at the Asian Institute of Technology. Specifically, it provides for:

1. Application Processing Fees

2. Tuition and Registration Fees for Bridging course, Master’s Degree Programs (4 semesters in AIT)

3. Monthly bursary and accommodation costs for bridging, bridging and master’s degree programs

4. Visa fees, medical insurance, book/printing/photo copy allowance, research grant

5. Return air ticket for Yangon-Bangkok-Yangon

Eligibility Criteria:

Applicants must:

1. Have completed a Bachelor degree from a recognized university of good standing and reputation, with a GPA of at least 2.75 out of 4.0 or equivalent.

2. Demonstrate proficiency in spoken and written English

3. Be below 40 years of age at the time of enrollment (August 2014)

4. Should have at least 1 year of working experience

5. Demonstrate the motivation and capacity to successfully complete a university program

6. Demonstrate the motivation and capacity to contribute to the development and capacity building of Myanmar

Scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic record, application form, references, English language test and interview and a personal statement and essay indicating the applicant’s English language skills and capacity for university education as well as their commitment to the development of the country. Equity in terms of age, ethnicity, location and gender will be taken into account.

How to apply:

1. Download and complete the NMFA/AIT Scholarship Application Form (right click save file as),and also include:

a. Copy of your academic certificate/transcript

b. A personal statement (English language, max. 400 words)

c. Names of two (2) referees: one, a teacher or academic advisor familiar with your academic capacity or your employer the other a responsible adult, other than a family member, who knows you well

2. Email application documents to: nfmam@ait.asia or apply online from the following link Application Form

3. If you don't have regular access to the internet, you can submit your application to one of the addresses below

4. The closing date for receipt of applications is 21st February 2014.

5. You will be contacted by the NMFA/AIT scholarship selection team for the next steps in the selection process only if you are shortlisted by the AIT schools to which you apply

You can obtain application form and submit hard copies of your application to one of the following addresses

AIT admissions office

Street Address:

Admissions and Scholarships Unit
Asian Institute of Technology
58 Moo 9, Km. 42. Paholyothin Highway Klong Luang,
Pathumthani 12120 THAILAND
Phone:+66 (0) 524 5024/ 5031-33
Fax: +66 (0) 524 6326
E-mail: nfmam@ait.asia

Postal Address:

Admissions and Scholarships Unit
Asian Institute of Technology
P.O. Box. 4 , Klong Luang
Pathumthani 12120 THAILAND

National Secretariat:

AIT AA- Myanmar Chapter
Room No. F-21,
1st Floor, Building B,
Pearl Condo., KOE Dental Clinic
Kaba Aye Pagoda Road
Bahan Township
Yangon, Myanmar

Source: http://www.ait.ac.th/admissions/Current_Scholarships/nmfa-scholarships-for-myanmar-2004#.Ur08mtIW04f

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