Students wait outside classrooms in Sittwe, capital of western Rakhine State on June 1, 2021. - Schools in Myanmar opened on June 1 for the first time since the military seized power, but teachers and students are set to defy the junta's calls for full classrooms in a show of resistance. (Photo by STR / AFP)

The emerging alternatives to ‘military slave education’

The overwhelming rejection of state education since the coup has spawned the emergence of learning alternatives, including plans for both physical and virtual universities.

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