Social development

Education and training

Youths rush into social and enviromental activism

Young Cambodians are becoming increasingly engaged in social issues, with many university students volunteering for causes they consider important for national development, student leaders and youth organizers say. ...

Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13336/youths-rush-into-social-and-enviromental-activism/

Students knuckle down to prepare for cheating-free exam

Hean Chanthorn, 20, a grade 12 student from Chea Sim Santhor Mok High School in Phnom Penh, says he wakes at 4 a.m. every morning to revise. He heads to school at 6 a.m. and stays there until 7:30 in the evening. After dinner, Chanthorn ...

Leng Sreynich
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/students-knuckle-down-to-prepare-for-cheating-free-exam/2862364.html

Teachers press for missing bonuses

Nearly 150 teachers across five districts in Kampot province have signed a petition demanding the government pay them monthly rural posting bonuses they say are now nine months in arrears. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-press-missing-bonuses

Degrees of change in the air

Public and private universities are experiencing an exponential rise in the number of students opting for two-year associate degrees rather than four-year bachelor’s programs following last year’s disastrous high school exit examinations, education officials said yesterday. ...

Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/degrees-change-air

Thousands drop out from national exams

After last year’s crackdown on high school exit-exam cheats, the number of students who have registered to take the exam this August has dipped, but with new monitoring initiatives in place, education officials said they are optimistic the pass rate will increase. The 88,488 candidates planning ...

Sen David and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thousands-drop-out-national-exams

Language expert warns against "foreignization" under globalization

As Cambodia seeks greater integration with regional and global economies, a language expert warns against overreliance on foreign identity and language. Chan Virak, a doctorate student in culture, literacy and language at the University of Texas at San Antonio, says Cambodia should invest in its own ...

Sophat Soeung
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/language-expert-warns-against-loss-of-identity-under-globalization/2834297.html

'Geek’ girls prove technology is not just for boys

A small group of women technologists made the semi-final round of a global entrepreneurship competition recently, after designing a mobile app that could help farmers get better prices for their goods. ...

Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/geek-girls-prove-tech-is-not-just-for-boys/2827698.html

During Japan’s occupation, artist resisted, died

Seventy years ago Thursday, during what may have been the murkiest period of the French administration in Cambodia, the founder of the National Museum died in an interrogation room at the hands of Japanese authorities. ...

Michelle Vachon
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/during-japans-occupation-french-artist-resisted-died-85793/

Ministries need to pull together on skills gap

The Ministry of Economy and Finance is urging ministries to avoid overlapping each other’s programs when it comes to tackling the Kingdom’s long-lamented human resource skills gap. A workshop was held yesterday between the Finance Ministry, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labour, the private ...

Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministries-need-pull-together-skills-gap

Primary schools in spotlight at funding talks

Less than a week after Unicef announced that primary school enrollment in Cambodia had reached a high of 94.5 percent, government officials and foreign donors met Tuesday to discuss ways to improve the quality of the education those students are getting. ...

Maria Paula Brito and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/primary-schools-in-spotlight-at-funding-talks-85710/

Striking teachers call for principal’s ouster

Teachers at a Takeo province high school who began striking yesterday said they will not return to work until the principal, who allegedly embezzled school budget funds, is removed. Nearly 30 of 50 teachers at Sok An Kdey Tontoem High School in Takeo’s Samrong district walked ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/striking-teachers-call-principals-ouster

Ministries to push vocational training, starting in Svay Rieng

Starting next month, the ministries of education and labor will offer job counseling to students in Svay Rieng province as the first step in an effort to better match employment opportunities in the country with the skills of youth entering the workforce, the education minister ...

Maria Paula Brito and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministries-to-push-vocational-training-starting-in-svay-rieng-85638/

Hun Sen sells ‘win-win policy’ to students

Following an appeal by Prime Minister Hun Sen for the country’s youth to better understand his self-titled “win-win policy,” which he credits for ending the civil war and peacefully reintegrating the Khmer Rouge, the premier Monday delivered an hourlong lecture on the topic to about ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-sells-win-win-policy-to-students-85625/

Students in Cambodia want to learn English

The oldest public school in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, is in a small courtyard downtown. The Tuan Hoa school has a Chinese temple and Mandarin language classes for its 2,000 students. But in Phnom Penh, Chinese usage is still behind English. This is true although ...

Neou Vannarin and Colin Lovett
http://bit.ly/1BgdqOf

UK pledges to provide more scholarships

The UK Government pledged to increase the number of scholarships to Cambodian students. They also promised to give more assistance to the Khmer Rouge Court trials and help solve the mine problem. ...

Ban Sokrith and Phun Chan Ousaphea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12155/uk-pledges-to-provide-more-scholarships/

In Cambodia, English classes more popular than Chinese

In a small courtyard in downtown Phnom Penh sits the city’s oldest public school. Founded more than 100 years ago, Tuan Hoa features a Chinese temple and Mandarin language instruction for its 2,000 students. ...

Neou Vannarin and Colin Lovett
http://bit.ly/1GxFgI7

‘School of Good Governance’ aims to foster integrity in officials

The Interior Ministry is developing the curriculum for a “School of Good Governance,” which from 2016 will bring officials from the provinces to Phnom Penh for a crash course in acting with integrity, a ministry official and an NGO partner said Monday. ...

Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/school-of-good-governance-aims-to-foster-integrity-in-officials-85226/

Don't pay for scholarships

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports denied that they allowed stakeholders and companies to charge fees for students to apply for scholarships. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12007/ministry--don-t-pay-for-scholarships/

Students protest over inability to sit exams

Nearly 200 midwives and nursing students at the International University in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district protested yesterday after reportedly being denied the necessary documents required to sit the Ministry of Health’s state civil servant exam this summer. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-protest-over-inability-sit-exams

Education minister: no easing of anti-cheating campaign

In a few weeks, Cambodian high school seniors will sit down to take the national college entrance exam. Last August, Cambodia’s Minister Hang Chuon Naron pulled off a revolution. He cracked down on cheating. Pass and fail rates neatly flipped, with only 25 percent passing ...

Emmanuel Scheffer
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/11926/education-minister--no-easing-of-anti-cheating-campaign/

New teachers for KR classes

The US Institute of Peace on Wednesday announced the completion of a program – conducted by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) – to train an additional 600 educators to teach Khmer Rouge history in the Kingdom’s secondary schools. ...

Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-teachers-kr-classes

Solar sheds some light on Cambodian students

While it may be unpopular, nearly everyone has had to do homework. Yet for those living in communities with no or intermittent access to electricity, the ability to study at home is sometimes a luxury. In Cambodia, French non-profit association Lumières sur le Mékong – ...

Anmar Frangoul
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102564971

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