Upgrading the Quality of Teachers and Students  at the Basic and Higher Education Sectors (from 31-3-2011 to 11-4-2014) 
Upgrading the Quality of Teachers and Students at the Higher Education Sector
To promote the standard of English language teaching in Myanmar, nurturing the qualified English teachers is the first priority to carry out among the multiple tasks. Therefore, after the ELT task force was formed in November 2000, whenever new English tutors are appointed at the higher education institutions, teacher training courses are conducted for them.
Three batches of 5-week training courses were provided for the English tutors who were appointed in 2002 and 2005 and altogether 289 tutors benefited from the courses. In 2010 and 2011, 198 English tutors, recruited in 2009, were given a 10-week in the Teaching of English Course in five batches at the National Centre for English Language (NCEL).  
Again in October 2012, the Upskilling Programme for Freshly Appointed Tutors of English (UPFATE) was conducted for 140 English tutors who were appointed in September 2012. The course lasted for 9 weeks and the tutors were trained not only to develop their English language proficiency and their English language teaching methodology, they were equipped with presentation and public speaking skills. They were also taught how to carry out action research which is a necessity for language teachers.