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Cambodia has struggled to promote the access and quality of education in responding to the local needs and international mainstream of education goals. In general, there are number of positive progresses being made in term of enrollment rates and gender parity; however, there are still major issues for Cambodia to cope with such as the equal access, dropout, survival, lack of teacher resource, quality of learning, study materials and so on. The current issues need the country to invest more input in term of financial and human resource such as teacher resource and infrastructure in order to achieve the education goals. The education in Cambodia has its long way to go and this cannot be solved with one single dimension but the whole system and dynamic resource working dynamically to develop itself under time and available budget.
Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching
Dilemmas in Development Raised by a Teacher Training Project in Cambodia2012 •
2012 •
The education sector in Cambodia has come a long way and achieved a number of impressive accomplishments following year zero, almost three decades of civil conflicts, internal strife, political instability, and backwardness. It is noteworthy that the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) through the establishment of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) in 1992, together with the international partners and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) has done a remarkable job in rehabilitating a dysfunctional education system and rebuilding a shattered economy. However, there is an immediate need to better educate and train more people in order to promote more efficient and superior cadres to build up a stronger nation with an economic self-sustainability. An education that supports the development of morality and critical thinking skills will be increasingly important for all Cambodian students to restore the identity of the Khmer people from one of victimhood to one of capacity, pride and honor, and also to compete regionally and globally. This paper begins by identifying the near eradication of education in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge epoch and will highlight the progress up to the present day. The paper will then examine the challenges of the educational reforms in which both the beneficial and the adverse effects will be presented. As this paper will show, the national strategy to promote new long term and sustainable sources of economic growth as well as improving living standards is based on developing human resources and building human capacity, thus improving the overall quality of education. Additional transformations in the educational sector are necessary for Cambodia to tackle the challenges of the 21st century, including those of globalization and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Only when we can advance education can we advance the nation.
Educational Research for Policy and Practice
Education reforms in Cambodia: issues and concerns2007 •
Abstract This paper discusses the key issues and concerns in the Cambodian government's efforts to implement three priority education policies for 20062010: ensure equitable access to education; increase quality and efficiency of the education services; and ...
2014 •
Cambodia’s education system has been illuminated during the Pol Pot regime in the 1970s so called the Khmer Rouge. During this period, most of the infrastructures in the country including schools, hospitals, buildings, roads, etc have been destroyed. Professionals, intellectuals, teachers, students, and innocent people were killed which is leading to the country’s development impact leaving the poverty in the society until present. Since this regime has been deliberated from 1979, the government of Cambodia has prioritized its education policy and development by putting resources and fund in recovering the education system especially, in the primary education in rural and remote areas across the country. Although the education policy system has been put into place, the policy issues are still facing and needed to be addressed and reviewed. The current major education policy problems are within the government management system such as lacking of the government authorities to manage quality of education, raising the awareness of primary education in the communities, and fund location disbursement.
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