Non-Formal Primary Education
Since school year 2014-2015, the learning centres overseen by Help without Frontiers offer Non-Formal Primary Education, an alternative pathway to education designed for those children who missed the chance for an education in the Myanmar formal system of education. Upon completion of the two-year programme of Non-Formal Primary Education in migrant learning centres in Mae Sot, children can sit for the final examinations of Grade 4 prepared by the Myanmar Ministry of Education. If they pass the final test, they are eligible for enrolling into Grade 5 in the formal educational system of their country.
When non-formal education was launched as a pilot project in 2014, 120 students enrolled into four migrant learning centres in Mae Sot. After few years, in school year 2018-2019, 718 children are enrolled into Non-Formal Primary Education in 22 migrant learning centres in Mae Sot, Mae Ramat and Phop Phra. Since school year 2017-2018, Help without Frontiers has launched a pilot project of Non-Formal Middle Education to expand non-formal educational opportunities up to Grade 8.
In December 2018, Mr Kusol Payaksak conducted an independent research to monitor and evaluate the management of NFPE and NFME programmes in Tak Province.
