On a recent April morning, Aung Kyaw Soe got off the bus near the University of West-Rangoon after spending some two hours in traffic to reach the campus located on the city’s outskirts.
“When we take the public bus to the university we break out in a sweat and are not fresh to begin teaching,” complained the Botany Department lecturer.
Like many universities and colleges built under Burma’s former military regime, the University of West-Rangoon was constructed in a remote part of town and lacks on-campus student housing—part of a deliberate effort by the junta to curtail potential student mobilization. (Courtesy of Irrawaddy)
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