Seminar: What You Should Know About Stock Markets Speaker: Min Thu Maung (Ph.D.), Associate Professor of Finance & Graduate Chair in Finance, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Date/Time: June 23: 10:30 to 12:00 Discussion Topic: Yangon Stock Exchange and related Cost: Free (by phone registration only: Age 18 and above) Contact: 09-251979779, 09-965081493 for registration
Seminar: U.S. and Canada University Education, Majors, and Career Paths
Seminar: U.S. and Canada University Education, Majors, and Career Paths Speaker: Min Thu Maung (Ph.D.), Associate Professor of Finance & Graduate Chair in Finance, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Date/Time: July 7, Sunday: 10:30 to 12:00 Cost: Free (by phone registration only) Contact: 09-251979779, 09-965081493 for registration
Doing Business in Myanmar
A COUNTRY’s institutional framework is vital to its financial and economic development. One of the first thing that comes to mind when considering the efficiency of a country’s institutional framework is how it impacts business operations, as measured by the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report. Despite some economic reforms, Myanmar’s ease of doing Read More
Reforming the Financial Sector
THE DRASTIC depreciation of the Myanmar kyat, declining foreign investment, and the growing budget and current account deficits have prompted many to call for financial reforms. Financial reforms encompass a broad range of aspects but it is always easier to start with one everyone is familiar with: banking reforms. The primary role of banks is Read More
The decline of Myanmar Kyat: A crisis of confidence
A bit over five years ago in 2013, I wrote an article about the declining value of kyat vis-à-vis the dollar (Is Myanmar’s currency in crisis? Myanmar Times, July 22, 2013). In July, 2013, the value of USD was close to 1,000 kyats. Considering that kyat was trading for around 820 per dollar in April Read More
Join Myanmar IVY College!
Welcome to join us! Here are some job opportunities at Myanmar IVY College. Lecturers/Senior Lecturers (Full-time/Part-time, multiple positions) Requirements Ph.D. in a business-related discipline Master’s degree holders with a significant teaching experience may be considered for lecturers of undergraduate programs Ability to teach in English when required Benefits Flexible working hours and competitive benefits will be Read More
တကၠသိုလ္မ်ား အဆင့္သတ္မွတ္ျခင္းအေၾကာင္း သိေကာင္းစရာ
အပိုင္း(၁) ပထမဦးဆံုးအေနႏွင့္တကၠသိုလ္မ်ား ၏အဆင့္ကို သတ္မွတ္သည့္နည္း စနစ္မ်ားမွာ မ်ားစြာရႈပ္ေထြး သျဖင့္ ေက်ာင္း သားမ်ား အေနျဖင့္ အဆိုပါ အဆင့္သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္တစ္ခုတည္း အေပၚအားထားၿပီး မည္သည့္ တကၠသိုလ္ကို ေရြးခ်ယ္မည္ဟု မဆံုးျဖတ္သင့္ပါ။ အမ်ားသိၿပီးျဖစ္ေသာ တကၠသိုလ္အဆင့္(University Ranking)သတ္မွတ္နည္းတစ္ခုမွာ တကၠသိုလ္မ်ား၏ အခ်က္အလက္အားလံုးကိုၿခံဳငံုသံုးသပ္ၿပီး အဆင့္သတ္မွတ္ျခင္း (Overall Ranking) ပင္ျဖစ္ ပါသည္။ ဤအဆင့္သတ္မွတ္ျခင္းစနစ္တြင္ ဘြဲ႔ႀကိဳ(Bachelor)၊ ဘြဲ႔လြန္(Master’s Degree)၊ အဓိကဘာသာရပ္ (Majors) စသည္တို႔ကို ထည့္သြင္းစဥ္းစားျခင္းမျပဳဘဲ တကၠသိုလ္မ်ား၏အရည္အေသြးကို သာ ၿခံဳငံုသံုးသပ္ၿပီး အဆင့္ သတ္မွတ္ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံတြင္ က်ယ္ျပန္႔စြာအသံုးျပဳသည့္ အဆင့္ သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ အစီရင္ခံစာမွာ “US News and World Report” ပင္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ေအာက္ပါသံုးသပ္ခ်က္သည္ သီးျခားေဖာ္ျပမထားလ်င္ ၂၀၁၈ခုႏွစ္အတြက္ Read More
Part III: Global Rankings: Comparing Apples and Oranges
US News provides global rankings of world universities. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings Harvard claims the top spot, followed by MIT. Ranking #5 is claimed by Oxford. A question that comes to mind is whether a student should care much about whether they go to #1 Harvard or #5 Oxford or #17 Imperial College London. The answer is perhaps Read More
Part II: Ranking Graduate vs. Undergraduate Programs, and by Major
Some schools are mostly tailored towards teaching the undergraduates while some are focused on research (mainly by virtue of their PhD programs). Of course, there are others who are good at both. In fact, most schools that do well in graduate programs tend to do well in undergraduate programs, and vice versa. When it comes Read More
Myanmar permits full foreign capital investments in education sector
The Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) has permitted foreigners to make full capital investments in private schools in Myanmar, according to Notification 7/2018 issued by the MIC on April 20. This means foreigners will now be able to fully own and operate private schools teaching a curriculum prescribed by the Ministry of Education (MOE) or an Read More