The Burmese military junta's education system is in a mess. For instance teachers' in-charge of middle school students in Dum Gan village 10 miles from Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, are not qualified to teach. And students are known to cheat at pre-final examinations and indulge in other bad manners, a source said.

School teachers are not qualified enough to teach students and they make a bad job of teaching. The students are known to pass the examinations without knowing anything about the subjects, residents said.

“The school teachers on the other hand have been teaching the students how to pass the examinations by cheating. The teachers do  not take any action against the students who break rules in the examinations and it happens regularly in the Vth VIth and VIIth grades," a resident in Dum Gan village told KNG.

The students do not bother to study and during the examinations they just copy. Interestingly the teachers do not allow the students to copy in the final board examinations but they do allow copying in the regular examinations in school. Most the teachers in Dum Gan are Burmans and they are from Myitkyina Township, he added.

In Dum Gan village nearly 30 students sat for the tenth standard examination but only one student passed this year, he added.

In Burma's education system not only are students taught to memorize their subjects but also told to write the answers in the final examinations exactly the way the teachers taught them.

So, the students from primary to university level do not try to understand the subjects but memorize them for the final examinations.