Yangon, Myanmar: Rumors are spreading within ministry of education that government will rule out private tuition in Myanmar for basic education system. Currently, primary to high school students need to attend private tuitions to learn their lessons properly as most of the teachers at schools are notorious for not concentrating enough in their duties. The low pay scale to teachers inMyanmaris to be blamed for such corruption in the education system. Finance minister announced that the ruling government will raise the pay scale to all government officials in coming fiscal year and ruling out private tuitions can be the outcome of rising pay scale, vice minister stated.
Popular News Journal reported that government will not only raise the pay scale of teachers in basic education schools, but also hire more teachers to reinforce the current basic education inMyanmarand will also give promotions to the hard working headmasters and headmistresses. In a report from Popular News Journal, vice minister, U Ayi Qu said “Ministry is providing a good care to the teachers and other officials concerning with education, so that they will have to concentrate in providing sufficient care to their students. Yes, they are getting low pay and providing tuitions in order to make ends meet. With the government raising the pay scale, we suppose they won’t be providing private tuitions apart from school lessons”.
Currently a primary school teacher is earning 50,000 Kyats (about 60 US dollar) as a monthly salary and it is only about 1500 Kyats (about 2 US dollar) per day. That is why they need to provide private tuitions to earn a living. Even though they provide private tuitions, some teachers also teach properly in schools but the rest do not do so in order to persuade students to attend their private classes. It has been a common practice in public schools ofMyanmarfor more than two decades. If they earn enough, private tuitions can be disappeared in education system ofMyanmar.
One of the retired teachers discussed that despite the attractive payroll, it will still be difficult to rule out private tuitions. He said there’d be doing fewer tuitions sessions than before but he thinks they will still be there until students are getting proper education at their schools.
Some parents also suggest that updating the syllabus is also essential for producing more quality students inMyanmar. And they also expect teachers to put more concentration in their students not only at private tuitions but also at their schools. Stay tuned for more updates on private tuition in Myanmar as this develops.
