Social development
Education and training
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/
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/
Higher education reform gets $90M
Cambodia’s higher education sector – which education officials last month said lacks a clear vision – will undergo improvements under a six-year project financed by a $90 million no-interest loan from the World Bank. ...
Yesenia Amaro
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/higher-education-reform-gets-90m
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
Students learn wildlife conservation benefits
Students in Kampong Thom and Siem Reap provinces last week learned that protecting wildlife can be beneficial to both local communities and the environment at a workshop hosted by the Wildlife Conservation Society. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114897/students-learn-wildlife-conservation-benefits/
Workers to be informed of their labour rights
The Labour Ministry will send more than 200 trainers to factories and relevant institutes to educate workers about labour rights. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Soeung Sarsochetta, secretary of state at the Labour Ministry, said 250 trainers from the Labour Ministry would go to factories, businesses ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114377/workers-to-be-informed-of-their-labour-rights/
Students to get business training
The Ministry of Education has included a business training programme at 25 high schools across the country to give students the soft skills necessary to create their own jobs or find suitable jobs upon graduation. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50112833/students-to-get-business-training/
South Korea to train local educators
The Education Ministry plans to cooperate with the Ministry of Education of South Korea to help train teachers in Cambodia, specifically in new teaching techniques and on the subjects of science and mathematics. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/112235/south-korea-to-train-local-educators/
Japan funds education and health
The Japanese government yesterday provided grant assistance worth nearly $350,000 to support IT education for disabled young Cambodians, as well as the construction of hospital buildings in three provinces across the kingdom. The agreement was signed at the Japanese embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday afternoon between ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108990/japan-funds-education-and-health/
Ex-CNRP teachers fired in Siem Reap, say move politically motivated
The Ministry of Education has fired four ex-Cambodia National Rescue Party members from their teaching jobs in Siem Reap province, according to a letter from Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ex-cnrp-teachers-fired-siem-reap-say-move-politically-motivated
France grants $50 million in aid and loans to Cambodia
The French government has provided $50.9 million as grant aid and loans to Cambodia for clean water and hygiene in the provinces and to enhance capacity in the education sector.According to a statement from the Finance and Economy Ministry on Wednesday, the French government granted ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104242/france-grants-50-million-in-aid-and-loans-to-cambodia/
Ministry eyes school discipline
The Ministry of Education late last week instructed provincial education departments to tighten their management of schools and to discipline teachers who are failing to live up to their responsibilities. ...
Kong Meta and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-eyes-school-discipline
Garment factory literacy classes expanded
The Ministry of Education is to expand literacy classes for garment workers to more than 12 provinces where factories are located this year, with more classes planed for the whole nation by 2020. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102211/garment-factory-literacy-classes-expanded/
Teacher training video released
The Education Ministry has produced a short video and posted it to its YouTube channel to help teachers educate students in grades one to three. The video, which runs less than 20 minutes, shows methods of teaching Khmer literature, mathematics and other subjects. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101660/teacher-training-video-released/
Government to add new kindergartens
The Ministry of Education plans to incorporate an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 community-based kindergartens – currently run by commune councils with support from NGOs – into the state public school system to ensure their sustainability, according to a new sub-decree. ...
Niem Chheng and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-add-new-kindergartens
Japan grants cash for teacher schools
Japan has granted about $28 million in aid for the construction of teacher education colleges in the kingdom. The signing ceremony took place yesterday at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5097270/japan-grants-cash-teacher-schools/
Success of project to get marginalised children into classrooms lauded
Four years ago, a consortium of NGOs in Cambodia identified 57,000 marginalised children who, for various reasons, were not attending school, and put them into classrooms. Today, more than 90 percent of them are still attending classes, an achievement lauded during the Cambodia Consortium for ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/success-project-get-marginalised-children-classrooms-lauded
US to fund project preserving clothes of S-21 victims
The United States Embassy has pledged $55,500 to the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts in part to preserve the clothes worn by victims of atrocities at S-21 prison. ...
Cindy Co
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-fund-project-preserving-clothes-s-21-victims
Military officer forced to give public apology
A Kampong Thom provincial military police officer is being forced to issue a public apology to Kampong Thom High School teachers after he cursed at them for instructing his daughter to change her clothes to match the school uniform. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093739/military-officer-forced-give-public-apology/
Ratanakkiri embraces e-learning
The government is urging parents to use technology, such as e-learning apps for smartphones and tablets, to improve the reading skills of children. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5089712/ratanakkiri-embraces-e-learning/
Government proposes $6B budget for 2018
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a national budget for next year that calls for more than $6 billion in spending, the largest increase ever proposed for the Kingdom, with big boosts for education, defence and the arts. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-proposes-6b-budget-2018
Japan to open elder care training centre
A new centre will launch in April 2018 to train Cambodian migrant workers to work with elderly people in Japan. On Tuesday, Minister of Labour Ith Samheng said the Japanese company Procast Asia would establish the centre. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087827/japan-open-elder-care-training-centre/