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Aung San Suu Kyi seeks UK help for Burmas universities

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Aung San Suu Kyi, a PPE graduate of Oxford and the Burmese opposition leader, is looking to the UK for assistance in rebuilding Burmese higher education.


A recent article for BBC News quotes Daw Suu as noting that At one time the education system in Burma was very closely linked to the education system in Britain. In fact, we could say that modern education was introduced to Burma by the British government. Now we have to learn all over again.

The article can be read in full here.