Social development

Education and training

Education Lagging in Science, Technology, Experts Say

Experts say the government has not yet done enough to promote the studies of science at the university level, leaving Cambodia behind on technology and other science subjects. Louise Ahrens, a project coordinator at Maryknoll, a US-based organization that provides education counseling at the Royal University ...

Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/education-lagging-in-science-technology-experts-say/1798183.html

Speech therapists to help fill void

Forty-eight Cambodians will graduate today from what is being heralded as the Kingdom’s first speech-therapy training program. The graduates have been trained to fill a void in speech- and language-therapy services for an estimated 536,000 people in Cambodia affected by communication and swallowing disorders, according to ...

Amelia Woodside and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/speech-therapists-help-fill-void

New Picture Book for Kids Published in Khmer

Cambodia Airports and the NGO Sipar, an organization that supports literacy and the publishing sector in Cambodia, jointly released a Khmer- and English-language book for toddlers about transportation Wednesday morning. “The Picture Book on Vehicles” is part of Sipar’s first collection of books for toddlers written ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-picture-book-for-kids-published-in-khmer-47537/

Alcohol a concern, say children

Though a bit young to be socio-political analysts, Cambodia’s children are major believers in the social value of education, are wary of the negative side effects of alcohol on their communities and place a high priority on honest government, a study released yesterday says. According ...

Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alcohol-concern-say-children

Nation’s youngest lack teachers

Fewer and fewer primary schoolteachers are willing to cope with poor pay and the worst student-to-teacher ratio outside of Africa, government data shows. Annual reports released by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport reveal that despite fervent recruitment efforts, every year since 2005 – when ...

Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nation%E2%80%99s-youngest-lack-teachers

French offer forensics 101

In the past two years, the French embassy in Phnom Penh has been drawn into at least two high-profile cases in which their nationals have died in suspicious circumstances in Cambodia. In an attempt to improve forensic investigations in the Kingdom, the French embassy announced ...

Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/french-offer-forensics-101

Ethnic minorities to receive bilingual education: gov’t

The government affirmed its commitment to bilingual education for ethnic minority children in Cambodia’s northern provinces at a UNESCO conference in Bangkok last week. Speaking at the fourth International Conference on Language and Education: Multilingual Education for all in Asia and the Pacific, Ton Sa Im, ...

Emily Wight
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/ethnic-minorities-receive-bilingual-education-gov%E2%80%99t

US Ambassador Advises More Labor Skills as Asean Integrates

US Ambassador William Todd on Thursday urged the Cambodian government to strengthen the skills of its laborers, in order to meet the needs of an integrated Asean in 2015. The 10 Southeast Asian countries that comprise Asean are all moving toward an integrated economic block, which ...

Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/us-ambassador-advises-more-labor-skills-as-asean-integrates/1785729.html

No politics, more pay: teachers

Teachers across Cambodia are insisting pay raises aren’t just an election year issue. More than 30 representative teachers gathered for the start of a three-day seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday to continue demanding living wages. The teacher are asking for 250$ per month, according to seminar ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-politics-more-pay-teachers

2014 Draft Budget Reaches Assembly, Still Under Wraps

The National Assembly’s 12-member permanent committee will take its first look at the country’s $3.54 billion draft budget for 2014 on Monday, though officials are still refusing to offer a breakdown of how the money will be spent. The draft, which allocates more than $400 million ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/2014-draft-budget-reaches-assembly-still-under-wraps-46514/

Plans to Reform Economy for Asean Integration

Cambodia’s newly appointed minister of commerce said Thursday that he plans to reform the country’s economy ahead of Cambodia’s entrance into the Asean Economic Community (AEC) 2015, though he and other officials did not say how they plan to accomplish that goal. Speaking to reporters on ...

Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/plans-to-reform-economy-for-asean-integration-46469/

Teenage Pregnancy Rate Stays Constant Over Past Decade

Teenage pregnancies are hindering Cambodia’s development as young mothers are unlikely to finish school and therefore lack job opportunities, government and U.N. officials said at the launch of a global report on adolescent pregnancies on Wednesday. “The Ministry of Women’s Affairs acknowledges that adolescent pregnancies have ...

Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teenage-pregnancy-rate-stays-constant-over-past-decade-46402/

UK Pedophile Came to Cambodia to Teach in Schools

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday charged convicted British pedophile Richard Fruin, 36, with sexually abusing two brothers, aged 8 and 11, at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh, court officials said. While the court has yet to decide Fruin’s fate, his case—and many similar ...

Kuch Naren and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-pedophile-came-to-cambodia-to-teach-in-schools-46353/

Public supplies put to private use, union says

An Oddar Meanchey director of education is denying a complaint filed to the Ministry of Education alleging he took school supplies from a public school for use in a private school and pocketed salaries of teachers who no longer worked there. In a letter dated Monday, ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/public-supplies-put-private-use-union-says

NGOs see gap in rights record

A group of NGOs condemned rampant abuses of sexual and reproductive health rights in Cambodia last week, just days before the government submitted a human rights progress report to the United Nations. The Cambodian Center for Human Rights, in cooperation with the Asia Pacific Network of ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-see-gap-rights-record

Officials demanded bribes, teacher say

A teacher at Tea Chamrath High School in Pursat town has accused school director Bou Sovannarith and deputy director Chhub Buntha of forcing students to pay bribes in the form of, among other things, enrolment fees for matriculation into the 2013-2014 academic year. Phat Malin, the ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-demanded-bribes-teacher-says

Education to Receive 20% Boost in 2014 Budget

The Education Ministry on Monday said it was in line for a near 20 percent hike from the government’s $3.52 billion draft budget for 2014, approved by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet on Friday, though other details of how money was to be allocated remained ...

Zsombor Peter and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/education-to-receive-20-boost-in-2014-budget-46127/

Index Shows Little Progress on Gender Equality

Cambodia has made little progress on gender equality and is the lowest-ranked country in the region, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2013 Gender Gap Index released Friday, slipping a place from last year to rank 104 out of 136 countries. The index examines the ...

Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/index-shows-little-progress-on-gender-equality-46004/

Hun Sen’s Cabinet Approves $3.5B Draft Budget

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s new Cabinet on Friday approved a 2014 draft budget of $3.5 billion, a 13 percent increase over this year’s budget, but gave no details as to how the money would be spent. The CPP also said it will go ahead with a ...

Hul Reaksmey and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-cabinet-approves-3-5b-draft-budget-45985/

Radio Host Calls On Pupils to Denounce Teachers Talking Politics

The owner of the popular local ABC radio station on Thursday urged university students to call his station and inform listeners if their teachers discuss information that could be deemed critical of the government. An ABC radio employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity as ...

Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/radio-host-calls-on-pupils-to-denounce-teachers-talking-politics-45899/

Cambodian School Educates New Generation of Social Workers

Cambodia has some 3,000 registered non-profit groups. Some work on highly sensitive issues such as violence against women and human trafficking. But there are few Cambodians formally trained for such work. That is now changing with the country’s first university-level degree program for social workers. When ...

Irwin Loy
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-school-educates-new-generation-of-social-workers/1774074.html

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