Social development
Education and training
No cheating in exam finals marks sea change for Cambodia
Cambodia’s final exam results for 2014 were disastrous, with more than half of the 90,000 students failing. The reason? The authorities stamped out cheating – the first of a series of reforms designed to fix the impoverished country’s broken education sector. The new policy is ...
Big News Network News Staff
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/229087639
Program eyes NGO aspirants
The Royal University of Phnom Penh plans to make its social work degree available to everyone next year, as young, locally trained graduates look to take the reins from foreign aid workers. RUPP Department of Social Work Faculty member Ung Kimkanika said the move would ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/program-eyes-ngo-aspirants
Seeking to cultivate young Cambodian leaders
US Ambassador William Todd created the Ambassador’s Youth Council in Cambodia in 2012, one of 80 such groups of youth around the world. The goal is to create better relations between Cambodia and the US and to cultivate young leaders for Cambodia, he said. “Those ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/seeking-to-cultivate-young-cambodian-leaders/2564238.html
Cambodia organizes 3rd book fair to promote reading
The 3rd edition of the National Book Fair kicked off here on Friday with an aim of encouraging the habit of book reading, officials said. The 3-day event, held at the National Library of Cambodia, exhibited tens of thousands of books from about 30 libraries, ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141129/cambodia-organizes-3rd-book-fair-promote-reading
Fee hike reduced after med students protest
Following a huge outcry from medical students, the University of Health Sciences agreed yesterday to lower a planned rise in annual tuition for those hoping to pursue a medical specialty beyond their general degree. The students then agreed to accept the rector’s offer of $2,250, ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/fee-hike-reduced-after-med-students-protest
Med students furious over coming fee hike
Medical students are up in arms about a tuition hike that would double costs and prevent some from gaining their degree, they told the Post yesterday. The University of Health Sciences announced Friday that students wishing to pursue a specialty beyond the general medical degree would ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/med-students-furious-over-coming-fee-hike
New panel for teachers’ problems
Teachers will be able to file complaints to the government under a new commission led by Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron. The commission will include Naron as chairman, two undersecretaries of state as deputies and a number of other officials. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/new-panel-teachers%E2%80%99-problems
USAID to provide skills training ahead of ASEAN integration
USAID has announced a regional project to train hundreds of instructors and students to be more competitive for Asean integration at the end of next year. Many young Cambodians say they fear the impending competition from an EU-like economic integration that would free up goods and ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/usaid-to-provide-skills-training-ahead-of-asean-int/2527791.html
For failed high school students, an array of options awaits
As about 60 percent of the tens of thousands of students who took the national high school exam—some twice—this year cope with failure, Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said this week the dismal grades would only have a “minor impact” on university admissions and jobseekers. ...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-failed-high-school-students-an-array-of-options-awaits-71790/
Failed students weigh future
As the new public school year gets under way this week, grade 12 students reeling from en masse failure at the national exam have a choice to make: repeat their grade or forfeit their diploma. In total, just 33,997 test-sitters, or 40.6 per cent of ...
Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/failed-students-weigh-future
Protest leader accuses Education System linked to Politics
Though the Ministry of Education is reforming its system which resulted in only 40 percents of the high school students across the country passed the exam this year, president of Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association Mr. Rong Chhun said that Cambodia education system is linked ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/protest-leader-accuses-education-system-linked-to-politics-7593
Cambodian PM urges students to enhance abilities as ASEAN community nears
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday appealed to students to study hard to develop their own abilities to compete in regional job markets as the ASEAN will turn into a community by the end of 2015. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-11/01/c_133759246.htm
Nearly 18 pct of applicants pass 2nd high school graduation exam in Cambodia this year
The Cambodian education ministry announced Friday that 10,871 applicants, or 17.94 percent, of the total 60,611 candidates passed the second and final high school graduation exam for 2014. The ministry organized the second test after only 25.72 percent of the total 89,937 high school students ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2014-10/31/c_133757216.htm
Ministry facing teacher shortage
Less than a week away from the start of the new school year, the government is short on teachers. Every year, the government struggles to recruit enough instructors to keep pace with enrollment rates and replace those who have retired, left teaching or passed away. The ...
Laignee Barron and Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-facing-teacher-shortage
Chinese book fair attracts scores of Cambodian students
Throngs of Cambodian students from various Chinese schools flocked to see the fifth edition of a Chinese book fair on Monday, seeking reading books which are helpful to their studies. Held at the Peace Book Center in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, the three-day ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2014-10/28/c_133748039.htm
A tragic cycle of abuse
Social worker Nong Socheat is well-acquainted with the ugly scope of child abuse. As a counsellor for First Step Cambodia (FSC), a local NGO that focuses on supporting male survivors of sexual assault, she regularly provides support for boys dealing with the aftermath of molestation. ...
Bennett Murray and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tragic-cycle-abuse
Cambodia's career fair attracts thousands of job hunters
The fourth edition of Cambodian career fair kicked off here on Tuesday, drawing attention from thousands of university students and graduates on the first day. Carmela Torres, senior specialist on skills and employability at the International Labour Organization, said the event is very important for ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/21/c_133732198.htm
No background checks on exam monitors: ACU
None of the more than 5,000 independent observers recruited for this year’s national exams had background checks or their identity verified before they were allowed into testing centres, an official said yesterday. During this year’s newly reformed and cleaned-up grade 12 exam, the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) ...
Pech Sotheary and Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/no-background-checks-exam-monitors-acu
Cambodian deputy PM encourages youths to study China's experience
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Sok An on Tuesday gave advice to youths to learn about China’s successful experience in politics, economics, diplomacy and poverty reduction, his personal spokesman said. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141014/cambodian-deputy-pm-encourages-youths-study-chinas-experienc
Over 7,000 students abandon second exams: Spokesman
As Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport is taking tough measure to curb cheating and bribery during examinations as part of its education reform, over 7,000 students have abandoned the second high school exams. The number can be the highest ever in the last 10 ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/over-7000-students-abandon-second-exams:-spokesman-7484
Round two: Thousands sign up for final re-test
More than 68,000 grade 12 students have signed up for a second and final shot at the high stakes national exam next Monday, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport reported. That’s all of the students who failed – and most who failed to show ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/round-two-thousands-sign-final-re-test
City bans pair of marches
City Hall has banned street marches for World Teachers’ Day and World Housing Rights Day, ordering participants to confine their activities to Freedom Park instead. World Teachers’ Day and World Housing Rights Day occur on October 5 and 6, respectively. Planners for both expressed disappointment ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/city-bans-pair-marches
Vocational training to get $30M ADB boost
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced last week a $30 million loan aimed at overhauling Cambodia’s technical and vocational education system (TVET). According to a September 26 statement issued by the ADB, the new funding will go towards launching a “competency-based” assessment and certification process, and ...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/vocational-training-get-30m-adb-boost
Ministry simplifies teacher salary payments
Teachers will receive their base salaries and additional benefits in a single package starting later this month, in an effort to simplify the payment process and avoid confusion, Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said Wednesday. Health, risk and rural bonuses will all be folded into teachers’ ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-simplifies-teacher-salary-payments-67860/