The NUG administration teams announced that junta administration staff will resign and leave 12 townships of Monywa District, Kanty District, Tamu District and Mawlight District in Sagaing Region because the NUG has installed its own administration in those areas.
Myanmar Junta Suspends Over 1,600 Educators for Refusing to Work
Myanmar Junta Suspends Over 1,600 Educators for Refusing to Work
Educators of Yangon University of Education stage a red-ribbon campaign against the military regime in February.
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By The Irrawaddy 8 May 2021
The military regime has suspended at least 1,683 striking educators and administrative staff members of 15 universities from their duties.
Following the Feb. 1 coup, many civil servants in the country have been on strike as they are unhappy with the takeover, saying they can’t work under military rule.
The regime ordered doctorate, master’s degree and final-year bachelor’s degree classes to reopen on May 5 nationwide, and educators and administrative staff to return to work by May 3, asking university authorities to report the list of absentees.
Military re-opens universities but few students attend
But only a handful of students attended, according to witnesses and student union sources across the country.
The state-run newspaper
Global New Light of Myanmar said the education ministry re-opened 134 universities on 6 May, following COVID-19 health rules, and described students as ‘satisfied’ that universities had resumed so that they could grasp the opportunity for learning and jobs. Teachers arrived on campuses on 3 May to prepare for teaching, it said.
A mathematics lecturer at Mawlamyine University who withdrew from the civil disobedience movement (CDM) to protect her family told
University World News that some students attended class but she thought more students might come in the weeks ahead.
After the coup: Will literature in Myanmar and the Irrawaddy Literary Festival be the same again?
Novelist Dipika Mukherjee reflects on the festival she attended in 2019, and on the fate of writing in Myanmar. 2 hours ago Irrawaddy Literature Festival: Panel discussion on Indian literature with Murzban Shroff and Dipika Mukherjee, moderated by Zaw Thun.
The first time I attended the Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Mandalay in 2014, I was dazzled. Irrawaddy. Mandalay. Bagan. The words tripped off the tongue poetically, redolent of Rudyard Kipling read on wide tropical verandahs in the monsoon. Mandalay is home to the Kuthodaw Pagoda, a Buddhist stupa known for containing the world’s largest book; 729 pristine white domes stretch to the horizon as far as the eye can see, each containing a marble slab inscribed on both sides with a page from the Buddhist text, Tripitaka. A bibliophile’s dream, it is like walking in the middle of an ancient open book.