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We are delighted to invite you to attend a CEID webinar on the Myanmar 2020 elections and celebrate the launch of a brand new open access book, Myanmar’s education reforms – a pathway to social justice?

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Date: Wed, 25 November 2020
Time: 11:30 – 12:30GMT
Sign up free: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-myanmars-2020-elections-book-launch-myanmars-education-reforms-tickets-126060427131

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In this CEID seminar, the panel will comment on the Myanmar elections that are taking place on the 8th of November 2020. The focus of the discussion will be on how the reforms, particularly since the NLD-led government took power in 2015. speakers include:
+ Dr Jérémie Sanchez (Fribourg) 
+ Dr Khaing Phyu (DFID, Yangon) 
+ Professor Marie Lall (UCL)

Professor Marie Lall will also launch her new book, Myanmar’s education reforms – a pathway to social justice? (UCL Press 2021).

The book reviews the state of education in Myanmar over the past decade and a half as the country is undergoing profound albeit incomplete transformation. Set within the context of Myanmar’s peace process and the wider reforms since 2012, Marie Lall’s analysis of education policy and practice serves as a case study on how the reform programme has evolved. Drawing on over 15 years of field research carried out across Myanmar, the book offers a cohesive inquiry into government and non-government education sectors, the reform process, and how the transition has played out across schools, universities and wider society. It casts scrutiny on changes in basic education, the alternative monastic education, higher education and teacher education, and engages with issues of ethnic education and the debate on the role of language and the local curriculum as part of the peace process. In so doing, it gives voice to those most affected by the changing landscape of Myanmar’s education and wider reform process.

Following presentations by the panel, there will be an open Q & A discussion with the online audience. 

The book is open access and can be downloaded here as of the 2nd of November: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/contact-115936/products/139468

Sign up free: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-myanmars-2020-elections-book-launch-myanmars-education-reforms-tickets-126060427131

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Speaker Bios:

Dr Jérémie Sanchez is Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His background is in Urban Planning (BSc, 2012), Development Studies (MSc, 2014) and Human Geography (PhD, 2019). Jérémie's research primarily explores urban environmental governance in the global South. His approach is interdisciplinary and stands at the crossroads of Human Geography, Postcolonial Urban Studies, and Development Studies. His current focus is on youth urban environmentalism in Myanmar. Parallel to his research, Jérémie teaches Environmental Geography at the University of Fribourg. He regularly collaborates with academic partners, public institutions, and civil society.

Dr Khaing Phyu Htut has been active in the Myanmar education sector for more than 15 years. She has worked in various roles at the Ministry of Education, the British Council and The Department for International Development (DFID) which is now known as the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Her background is in Applied Educational Leadership and Management (MA, UCL, 2018), English Literature and Linguistics (PhD, YU, 2009), Applied Linguistics (PGD, SEAMEO, 2006). She is currently an Education Adviser in FCDO Myanmar.

She has extensive experience in the Myanmar education sector having worked in diverse sectors doing national projects oversight, education system reform support, teacher education and improving learning outcomes for schools. She engages in education research and academic studies within her personal capacity. Her current focus is on leadership in education and intercultural education for peace and social cohesion.

Professor Marie Lall, FRSA, is a Professor of Education and South Asian Studies at the UCL Institute of Education. She served as UCL’s Pro-Vice-Provost for South Asia till November 2018. Professor Lall is a South Asia expert (India, Pakistan and Burma/Myanmar) specialising in political issues and education. She has over 25 years of experience in the region. Her research interests focus on the politics of South Asia including both domestic and foreign policy. She works in particular on education policy and education reforms in India, Pakistan and Myanmar with a focus on gender, ethnicity and social exclusion, the formation of national identity, and the linkage between national identity, citizenship and education. She has written widely on these topics and is the author/editor of 9 books and a monograph. She has been instrumental in providing thought leadership to development agencies, policy makers and governments in South Asia and internationally. She has worked with the World Bank, UNICEF, the British Council, AUSAID, South Asian philanthropic bodies as well as various government ministries across the region. In 2019 her work was honoured at the House of Commons and she was named as one of the 100 most influential people on UK-India relations. http://changeschool.org/professor-marie-lall-honoured-at-the-house-of-commons/. She has appeared more than 50 times on BBC News 24/ BBC World, Sky TV, Aljazeera TV and is often called to comment on South Asian affairs by the BBC Radio (World Service). Professor Marie Lall completed her B.Sc. Economics and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) and her MPhil from Cambridge University.

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