University of Veterinary Science, Yezin

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University of Veterinary Science, Yezin
မွေးမြူရေးဆိုင်ရာ ဆေး တက္ကသိုလ် (ရေဇင်း)
Established	1890,1957
Type	public
Rector	Dr. Tin Ngwe (WEF Nov 2009)
Location	Yezin, Naypyidaw 05282 Mandalay Division, Myanmar

The University of Veterinary Science, Yezin (Burmese: မွေးမြူရေးဆိုင်ရာ ဆေး တက္ကသိုလ် (ရေဇင်း)), located in Yezin in the outskirts of Naypyidaw, is the only university of veterinary science in Myanmar. The university offers a five-year Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) program, and accepts about 100 students a year.^[1] It also offers graduate (PhD, MPhil, MSc and MVSc) degree programs.^[2] The language of instruction at UVS is English.

[edit] History

Veterinary science education in Myanmar began in 1890 during the British colonial rule when the Veterinary Assistant Training School was opened at Shan Road in Kyimyindaing, Yangon. The school offered a two-year program, and senior veterinary officer Bhattiwallah was its first principal. In 1920, the school was upgraded, and the faculty was expanded by 12 veterinary inspectors and five veterinary superintendents, all non-Burmese. In 1923, the first Burmese veterinarian, Pe Than, a graduate of Bengal Veterinary College, was appointed a vet superintendent at the school. In February 1925, Governor Sir Harcourt Butler laid the foundation stone for the construction of the school's new building in Insein that would later bear his name. By 1931, the original two-year program had been extended to three years.^{[citation needed]}

In 1957, the Veterinary College, a Faculty of Rangoon University was established at the Insein campus. The school's four-year BSc (Veterinary) program accepted university students who passed Intermediate Science Part II with distinctions in zoology, chemistry and physics. In 1964, the college became the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science (IAHVS) (Burmese: တိရိစ္ဆာန် မွေးမြူရေး နှင့် ကုသရေး တက္ကသိုလ်), under the Ministry of Education, offering a six-year BVSc program. From 1957 to 1975, the two-year vet assistant program at the Veterinary Assistant Training School and the bachelor's degree program at the IAHVS were concurrently offered by two different government ministries. In 1981, the IAHVS was relocated to Yezin, Pyinmana (now part of Naypyidaw). In October 1999, the institute's name was formally changed to the present name in both English and Burmese.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1990s, UVS like most universities in the country was repeatedly closed by the military government fearing of student unrest. On 31 December 1994, the institute came under the administration of the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries.^{[citation needed]}

The university began offering postgraduate courses for MPhil in 1988, MVSc and MSc programs in 1992, and three-year doctoral (PhD) programs in 2007. The government has sent some of the faculty to the Universiti Putra Malaysia for doctoral studies. The first batch of locally trained doctorates (eight candidates in total) are due to graduate in mid 2010. The total number of graduates at the university between 1957 and 2007 was 3908.^{[citation needed]}

The Japanese government has sponsored two to three Burmese veterinarians for postgraduate studies in Japan each year since 2000.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Notable alumni and faculty

• Dr. Myint Thein: Rector; Winner of 2004 Research Award of the Association of Asian Veterinary Schools.^[3]
• Dr. Kyaw Sunn: Winner of 2005 Research Award of the Association of Asian Veterinary Schools.^[3]
• Dr. Khyne U Mar: Noted elephant veterinarian and author; a co-founder of an elephant care and research center.^[4]

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