Education expenditure as share of government spending Myanmar 2017-2019

Myanmar’s expenditure on education in 2019 amounted to approximately 10.46 percent of total government spending. This was an increase of less than one percent from 2017. Despite Myanmar’s efforts to put more focus on to its education sector, a higher share of government spending went on defense. Despite not having a higher level of expenditure put into education, Myanmar still had a high net enrollment rate in primary schools. Efforts towards improvementAs Myanmar has begun to attempt to recover from economic hardship experienced through sanctions, there has been a realization that there is a need for more qualified individuals who can stimulate economic and social development. A new wave of highly qualified individuals and experts would require an education sector which can provide the necessary training needed to advance academically. Therefore, Myanmar has increased its efforts to improve access to and the quality of basic education. The country hopes to achieve this through funding received from the International Development Association which will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas and underachieving schools. Although a significant number of people in Myanmar have a bachelor’s degree, it is predominantly only the wealthy who are able to progress into higher education. Problems: past and presentLong periods of social and political instability brought about by civil war have had a profound impact upon the education sector in Myanmar. The education system is run by the government and there have existed such extreme differences in the quality of teaching that students have gotten to grade three level without being able to read and write. Consequently, Myanmar has had a significantly high illiteracy rate among adults. For this reason, strong competition to secure places in better schools has developed. There have been instances of corruption within the education sector, with school principals accepting bribes from parents to allow their children into certain schools. New initiatives plan to eradicate the bribery within the education system and give less-advantaged children a higher quality of education.

2019年，缅甸在教育领域的支出占总政府支出的约10.46%。相较于2017年，这一增长不足1%。尽管缅甸努力加大对教育领域的投入，但政府支出中用于国防的部分占比更高。尽管在教育领域的支出水平并未显著提高，缅甸仍保持了较高的小学净入学率。随着缅甸开始尝试从经济制裁中恢复，人们逐渐意识到需要更多具备资质的人才以推动经济和社会的发展。为了培养新一代高素质的个体和专家，缅甸的教育领域亟需提供必要的学术提升培训。因此，缅甸加大了改善基础教育获取机会和质量的努力。该国希望通过国际开发协会的资金支持实现这一目标，该资金将专门用于最贫困地区和表现不佳的学校。尽管缅甸有相当数量的人拥有学士学位，但能够进入高等教育阶段的主要是富裕阶层。存在的问题：历史与现状长期的民变和社会政治不稳定对缅甸的教育领域产生了深远的影响。该教育体系由政府管理，教学质量存在极端差异，以至于学生在三年级时仍无法读写。因此，缅甸成年人的文盲率居高不下。鉴于此，竞争进入优质学校的现象日益激烈。教育领域也出现过腐败现象，校长接受家长贿赂，允许其子女进入特定学校。新的倡议计划消除教育系统中的贿赂现象，并为经济条件较差的儿童提供更高品质的教育。