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TCF Activities during 1 August to 20 October 2021

19/10/2021

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Consultation Meetings for Education Policy

 From 30 July 2021 to 3 September 2021, TCF has participated and led the discussion on education policy.

30 July 2021 - Meeting with ethnic education providers
6 August 2021 - Meeting with faith-based and migrant education groups
13 August 2021 - Meeting with civil society education groups
​14 August 2021 - Meeting with student unions and teacher unions
20 August 2021 - Meeting with civil society political activists
27 August 2021 - Meeting with political parties and elected MPs
3 September 2021 - Meeting with education experts from US, UK and Australia

Based on the suggestions from these consultation meetings and previous education policy recommendations made by Ethnic Nationalities Affairs Center (ENAC) and National Network for Education Reform (NNER), a draft of Federal Democratic Education Policy has been written. 

An initiative to establish a federal university

TCF has been initiating together with university teacher unions, ethnic-based education groups (Karen, Karenni, Kachin, Mon and Shan), faith-based education groups (Chin and Kachin) and migrant education groups to setup a university in Mon State. The university intends to provide Social Sciences courses in October 2022. Students from ethnic-based schools, faith-based schools, migrant schools as well as from inside Myanmar will be recruited. 

A university establishing committee has been formed and TCF is part of the committee. The committee has been held meetings almost ever Thursdays since April 2021. We are currently preparing syllabus for the social sciences courses. It is a non-profit university. The professors and lecturers from the University Teacher Associations will teach at the university as volunteers. The Mon National Education Committee provided a land for the university. The organizations who initiated for this university will contribute for the student costs. A financial team of the committee has been formed and doing on fund raising for the teaching and learning materials and university running costs. 

Teacher Education Workshops and Trainings

18 August 2021 - Online workshop on assessment with teachers of community-based and home-based education (20 participants)
3 September 2021 - Online discussion with community-based teachers (20 participants)
26-30 September 2021 - Online School Policy workshop with Headteachers and Township education officers of Mon Education Committee (33 participants)
27 Sep - 1 October 2021 - Online Critical Thinking workshop for youth jointly organized with Colors Rainbow (35 participants)
19 October 2021 - Online Workshop on homeschooling and home-based education with teachers and parents at Waingmaw Baptist Church, Kachin Stare (35 participants in the hall and over 1000 viewed the LIVE Show)

Conference, Seminar and Public Lecturer

6 August 2021 - Ms. Hawng Tsai presented about Education of Kachin IDPs at the Social Sciences Students' Seminar, Chiang Mai University. It was joined by 24 students and their professor.
​21 August 2021 - Ms. Hawng Tsai provided an online public lecture about the Well-being of Adolescent and Youth during pandemic and political crisis organized by Kachin World Congress (35 participants). It was viewed by 2200 on Facebook.

21 August 2021 - Dr. Thein Lwin provided a lecture online, "What should be the education policy in current situation and future Burma (30 participants)
11 September 2021 - Dr. Thein Lwin discussed with the members of Basic Education Teacher Unions on basic education policy (24 participants)
3 October 2021 - Dr. Thein Lwin participated in a panel discussion online to remark the World Teacher Day, October 2021 (It reached 168,000 views)
5 October 2021- Dr. Thein Lwin sent a video message to the World Teachers Day celebration in Mae Sot organized by Burmese Migrant Teachers' Association
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