The Education Bureau (EDB) of the Government of the HKSAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Education of Myanmar on education co-operation on 26 October to enhance education collaboration between the two places.  The MOU was signed by the Under Secretary for Education, Dr Choi Yuk-lin, and the Deputy Minister of Education of Myanmar, Mr Win Maw Tun, by means of exchange of documents.

The MOU provides a framework to facilitate strategic collaboration between the education communities of Hong Kong and Myanmar.  It covers initiatives including the provision of scholarships for students; exchange of expertise and experience; exchange of educational literature, teaching aids and demonstration materials; and exchanges of scholars, teachers, experts, students and other education personnel.  The main text of the MOU is available on the EDB website (www.edb.gov.hk/en/edu-system/postsecondary/policy-doc/index.html).

The EDB also announced the launch of the Belt and Road Scholarship (Myanmar) with a view to attracting outstanding students from Myanmar to pursue undergraduate studies in Hong Kong from the 2019/20 academic year. Under the scholarship scheme, up to 10 scholarships will be offered annually to students from Myanmar who are enrolled in first-year undergraduate programmes of publicly funded institutions in Hong Kong.  All awardees will receive scholarships to cover the full tuition fees of relevant programmes annually.