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| Comments: YIS
is the latest addition to the ILBC network of schools in
Myanmar - the first international school is the chain. It
is privately owned by a Burmese philanthropist, but administered
by ISS. The school opened in September 2004 as K-8, with
the intention of adding a grade each year over the next four
years. There are currently less than 100 students, with an
entirely expatriate faculty of a dozen - plus a locally-hired
teacher of Myanmar studies.
Myanmar is a vaguely uncomfortable place to live in. Much of what ought to be news here reaches us via CNN or BBC long before it is referred to in the local press. The ready smiles on the faces of the Burmese people belie the awful conditions that many of them experience. It is possible to shut yourself off ...Read more about ILBC-YIS Yangon, Myanmar in International Schools Review. |