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<center><bold><color><param>0000,8080,0000</param>dEP Distance Education
Proramme

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<center><bold>Welcome New Students

We Want You

to Improve Your Education

</bold></center></color><bold><color><param>ffff,0000,0000</param>Special
Call for Women Students!

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Would you like to join the NHEC Distance Education Programme?  =20

The NHEC would like you to!=20

The  Burma Distance Education Programme (DEP) has been developed by the
National Health and Education Committee (Burma) in conjunction with a
number of  funding agencies. It includes the distance English Language
Instruction courses=20

<bold>*	dELI 1</bold> and=20

<bold>*	dELI 2</bold>=20

and the=20

<bold>*	Certificate in Community Management (Burma) .=20


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<color><param>ffff,0000,0000</param>About that special invitation to
women

</color>In January 1998 we held an English test and according to the
results of the test students were invited to join dELI 1, dELI 2 or
Community Management.=20

Altogether  852 applications were received for the first test and 656
students actually sat for the test.  139 achieved levels high enough to
begin the Community Management course (104 males, 35 females). 337
students qualified for the higher level English course, dELI 2,  (237
male, 100 female) and 180 were invited to join the lower level English
course dELI 1 (114 males and 66 females).=20

The NHEC is very keen to be able to enroll more women in the Community
Management course and wants to encourage women to apply for the DEP and
do the English test. If you are a woman who is interested in the DEP
programme, even if you feel you could not yet pass the English test, send
an application to us and we will send you dELI 1 for practice. You can
join in the test when you feel you are ready and you can then continue
with dELI 1 or dELI 2 until you reach the level needed for Community
Management. There is no pressure, you can study at your own speed.=20

dELI 1 and dELI 2 are intended to help students up-grade their reading
and writing skills in English so that they can undertake further study in
English, either the DEP Certificate in Community Management (Burma)
course or some other course of study.=20


Not sure what Distance Education is?=20

Distance education is a term used for  a system of education in which the
student and teacher are separated by distance. In distance education
there is a teacher, but the teacher is far away.  Distance education can
take many forms. Learning from reading books is really a form of distance
education. You learn from the writer who may be far away, you don=92t have
direct contact with the writer. The oldest form of organised distance
education is often referred to as learning through correspondence courses
=97 courses prepared by a teacher and which are sent to you by mail or some
other form of delivery. The students, respond to the written lessons by
writing back again to the teacher. In many countries, distance education
is also provided by radio programmes, television, and by computers
connected by telephone lines. Sometimes lessons are sent in the form of
audio(cassettes) or video tapes.In some cases, the student can reply to
the teacher using telephone, radio, or computer. Such courses are used to
provide education to people who cannot, for some reason, attend a school
or college.  Some people may not be able to attend classes because they
do not have the money for the school fees, or must work and do not have
the time for classes. They may not be able to attend classes because they
are disabled, or they may live too far away. War, and natural disasters
may also prevent people from attending classes. At present our DEP
programme uses correspondence courses, but we may be able to use other
methods in the future.=20


How the DEP system works

It is NHEC policy that higher education in Burma should be in English.=20
The Community Management course is in English and that is why we have
also provided the dELI (distance English Language Instruction) courses to
help you improve your reading and writing in English.


The dELI courses=20

dELI 1 is a preparatory  English course which covers what you learned at
school and gives you some practice.

dELI 2 is a more advanced course which aims to bring your English reading
and writing skills up to the level needed to pass the DEP English test
and for studying the Community Management course.=20


The Community Management course=20

The Community Management course has been adapted for the DEP from course
materials developed in Australia for use by Aboriginal students training
to work as managers of community organisations in remote parts of
Australia. The course has been adapted to try to make it interesting and
useful for  people from Burma.=20

Students who complete the course will have become competent to work as
community administrators, managers of  local health clinics, educational
administrators =97 in fact to effectively manage any organisation  in a way
which emphasises the responsibility of managers to the community.=20



Progress so far:

We have begun the Community Management and dELI programmes  in Thailand
and in India and are now beginning to plan for a second English test
later in 1998.

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The second DEP English test=20

If you missed out on doing the first test and  would like to join the DEP
programme, please fill in the application form or write to us.=20

If you did the first test and did not achieve the level necessary to join
the Community Management Programme, and if you believe your English has
improved since then, you are welcome to do the second test. =20

Fill in the application form or write to us. What we need to know is
where you are (so that we can make sure there is an English test held
near you) and how to contact you so that we can send our DEP course
material to you.=20

When we receive your application, if you are not already registered with
us we will happily send you the dELI 1 course materials so that you can
practise your English while you are waiting to do the test. After the
test we will offer you a place in the course which is appropriate for
your level of English.




Application form=20

PleaseTEAR off and RETURN to=20

Distance Education Programme

<bold>PO Box 59

Chiang Mai University Post Office

Chiang Mai 50202

Thailand

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1.	Name__________________________


2.	Place of birth_____________________


3.	Nationality_______________________


4.	Place where you live________________


5.	Contact address___________________

     =20

      ______________________________

      ______________________________


6.	Telephone/fax contact if you have one

       ______________________________



Signature___________________________


Date ______________________________