Open and Distanace Education in Myanmar

Myanmar like other countries with well-established distance education system started the extension services of higher education in the form of University Correspondence Courses (UCC) in 1975-76. Over the years following the introduction of UCC, major changes in social and economic conditions had occurred in Myanmar. As it was necessary to promote the educational activities of the UCC under the changing conditions of the country, the Chairman of Myanmar Education Committee had given guidance in October 1991, to make UCC more extensive and comprehensive to be compatible with quality distance education system. 

Accordingly, officials under the Department of Higher Education had undertaken the preparatory work by reorganizing and restructuring the existing UCC for the emergence and establishment of a new Institution. Consequently the University of Distance Education was founded on 9 July 1992.