How is the ongoing reform program in Myanmar impacting higher education? During a recent briefing in London, Kevin MacKenzie, British Council country director in Myanmar from August 2012 until this month, provided some answers. He arrived 15 months after the military junta was dissolved, during “the early days of the reform agenda.” The election of Aung San Suu Kyi as a member of Parliament and an amnesty of political prisoners in 2012 “helped convince skeptics the government was serious,” although it was still dominated by “the same faces without military uniforms.” It was a time of “power cuts, empty roads, taxis with holes in the floor and scarce mobile phones.”

July 29, 2016 ・ From Times Higher Education