Ministries and other national bodies
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Dropouts to get online education scheme
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport is working in conjunction with Unesco and the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT) to launch an internet-based education programme for Cambodian youths in grades seven to nine who have dropped out of school. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dropouts-get-online-education-scheme
RUPP seal Sweden’s $10M funding
The Swedish Embassy in Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding with the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) on Wednesday to fund a high-quality training and research institute. The agreement is worth in the region of $10 million for a four-year pilot phase focusing on ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rupp-seal-swedens-10m-funding
Commission to review education sub-decree
The government plans to create a commission to review the national qualifications framework in order to improve the quality of education in the Kingdom. The establishment of the commission followed a request by Heng Vanda, Chairman of Cambodian Higher Education Association, during a meeting with ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50565376/commission-to-review-education-sub-decree/
Food safety set to be in curriculum
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport is set to finalise its draft national policy on student health, with food safety incorporated into schools’ curriculum throughout the country, according to a senior official at the ministry. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/food-safety-set-be-curriculum
Three universities agree to found new research centre
The Royal University of Phnom Penh, the Royal University of Fine Arts, and the National Institute of Education inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday, agreeing to establish a joint higher education social sciences and humanities research institute. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-universities-agree-found-new-research-centre
Education Ministry urges the Kingdom’s youth to volunteer
The value of volunteering work is underestimated by Cambodia’s youth, according to Sean Borat, secretary of state at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS). More than 33 per cent of Cambodians are aged between 15 and 30 years old. However, only a small ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-ministry-urges-kingdoms-youth-volunteer
Government leads joint programme with EU, strengthening an education sector
The EU on Wednesday launched the new phase of a multi-agency supported programme aimed at strengthening the Kingdom’s education sector. The Capacity Development Partnership Fund (CDPF), which was started in 2011, has entered its third and final phase which will cost $27 million over four ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-leads-joint-programme-eu-strengthening-education-sector
Smart, ministries offer scholarships
Smart Axiata in collaboration with the ministries of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), and Posts and Telecommunication (MPTC), signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to “develop future talents and digital corporate leaders”. As part of this, 20 scholarships will be offered to ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smart-ministries-offer-scholarships
Educators downplay dismal English grade
Top Cambodian educators have downplayed a global report that ranked the Kingdom 77th out of 80 countries in English proficiency, saying that language skills would not hurt economic competitiveness in the region. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/educators-downplay-dismal-english-grade
Teachers petition to march
The Kingdom’s teachers want a raise. That’s the demand from a prominent teachers’ union, which has applied to march to the Ministry of Education on World Teacher’s Day to submit their salary request. The Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association (CITA) wants teachers to receive at least ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-petition-march
Labour Ministry to failing students: Don’t despair
Students who failed this year’s grade-9 and grade-12 examinations should not despair as the government has provided alternative options for those who want to continue their studies, a Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training official said. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/labour-ministry-failing-students-dont-despair
Ministry issues apology for exam errors
The Education Ministry on Saturday apologised for a system error that affected the mathematics results of hundreds of students who sat for the national exam last month. Last week, hundreds of complaints were filed by high school students who were dissatisfied with their mathematics results. ...
Or Sreypich
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533696/ministry-issues-apology-for-exam-errors/
Exam score blunder solved
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport on Thursday said its computerised score calculation process had experienced technical problems that affected the mathematics examination scores of 740 classes. This was found when its committee, established to address dissatisfaction over the results of the high school, ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/exam-score-blunder-solved
Group of pupils complain over results of examination
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport said it will set up an examination committee to review complaints from over 100 students who are unhappy with their national high school examination results. Students across the Kingdom were disappointed with their results, especially in mathematics, where ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/group-pupils-complain-over-results-examination
Students get exam results
As many as 75,059 students or 66.21 per cent passed this year’s high school examinations. The figure is 2.37 per cent higher than last year, a Ministry of Education announcement said on Sunday. The ministry said this year, the number students who received either an ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-get-exam-results
Over 100,000 Kingdom high school students sit exams
A Total of 117,062 students sat for their high school examinations nationwide on Monday, braving incessant rains and the marauding floods in some provinces, said the Ministry of Education. And the number of candidates this year was much higher compared to last year’s 103,112 students. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-100000-kingdom-high-school-students-sit-exams
Failing students urged to take up skills training
Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron yesterday advised Grade 12 students who fail the national exam to study vocational skills instead of ending their education. Speaking at the launching of a pilot project “Basic Education Equivalency Program” in Phnom Penh, he said that students who ...
Or Sreypich
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50520587/failing-students-urged-to-take-up-skills-training/
National exam monitors recruited
The Anti-Corruption Unit yesterday started registering volunteer observers for the Grade 12 National Exam to monitor the process and guard against cheating. The ACU said it needed between 4,500 and 5,000 volunteer observers for the August 20 exam. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50510375/national-exam-monitors-recruited/
Schools get climate change textbook
The Environment and Education ministries have unveiled the official textbook on climate change for upper secondary schools. Under-secretary of state of the Environment Ministry Khut Chandara said at the official launch of the book on Monday that education played an important role in social, economic ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507849/schools-get-climate-change-textbook/
Minister sets down exam rules
The Education Ministry plans to spend nearly $5 million on the national high school exam this year. Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said yesterday that the ministry spent about $4.8 million preparing for the national exam every year. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507433/minister-sets-down-exam-rules/
UN-backed education policy ready for government approval
In a bid to improve the quality of vocational education in the country, the Ministry of Education and Unesco will submit a National Policy on Lifelong Learning to the Council of Ministers following multiple discussions on the matter. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50505797/un-backed-education-policy-ready-for-government-approval/
Program targets poor performing schools
The Education Ministry and the Development Partnership Fund have agreed to target nine provinces to develop quality primary education. The program, phase three of the Global Partnership of Education, was launched yesterday for 40 districts in the provinces. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501342/program-targets-poor-performing-schools/
Education grant targets disadvantaged children
The Education Ministry’s Capacity Development Partnership Fund has accepted another multimillion dollar grant from the Global Partnership for Education in order to improve the quality of education for students lacking economic support. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50498655/education-grant-targets-disadvantaged-children/
Two international union groups speak for fired teachers
Two prominent international unions have written to the Ministry of Education accusing it of illegally firing several employees with ties to the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, and asking that the group be reinstated. ...
Yon Sineat
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-international-union-groups-speak-fired-teachers