Social development
Education and training
China urged to fund mining school
The Ministry of Mines and Energy is in talks with the Chinese government to build a research and training school, in order to boost the staffing capabilities of the country’s growing mining industry, according to a senior ministry official. Following recent news that gold deposits ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28625/china-urged-to-fund-mining-school/
Cambodia's water woes get US Army tech assist
The US Army Corp of Engineers is providing Cambodia with new tools to understand its growing groundwater shortage. Last week, the Ministry of Environment, US Army Corp of Engineers and National Council for Sustainable Development hosted a three-day technical exchange on groundwater modelling. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-water-woes-get-us-army-tech-assist
Nearly $4M spent on national exam: Minister
Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said yesterday that about $4 million was being spent on the upcoming national exam and that strict rules will ensure a fair contest. “Each candidate costs an estimated 140,000 riel [$35] that the ministry will spend for whole process of the ...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28046/nearly--4m-spent-on-national-exam--minister/
Financial literacy in schools
Financial literacy, for students to make effective and informed money management decisions, will now be in the general education curriculum due to joint efforts by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS). ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27905/financial-literacy-in-schools/
Phnom Penh school has terrorist ties, Diplomat says
Turkey’s ambassador to Cambodia alleged on Monday that a top international school in Phnom Penh is overseen by the “terrorist organization” behind last week’s thwarted coup in Turkey—prompting a threat of legal action by the school. ...
Michael Dickison
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-school-has-terrorist-ties-diplomat-says-115595/
PM: 115 students in Turkey
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday wrote on his Facebook page that he was concerned about the 115 Cambodian students studying at different universities in Turkey where an attempted coup to overthrow the government happened on Friday. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27331/pm--115-students-in-turkey/
Internet to be introduced at 5,000 schools
The Ministry of Education on Tuesday announced an ambitious five-year plan with Metfone to provide internet access to 5,000 state education institutions across the country. ...
Samoeurth Seavmeng and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/internet-to-be-introduced-at-5000-schools-115056/
Kingdom scores low on human capital index
A report released yesterday by the World Economic Forum (WEF) underscores Cambodia’s poor performance at educating and training its citizens in order to develop a competitive workforce and put their skills to productive use. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-scores-low-human-capital-index
Japan gives $3M for scholarships
The Japanese government will continue providing scholarships to young Cambodian government officials wishing to study in Japan, continuing a tradition of bilateral scholarship that began in 2000, officials said yesterday. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25924/japan-gives--3m-for-scholarships/
Malaysia to sign MOUs with kingdom
Malaysia may soon cooperate more closely with a number of the Kingdom’s ministries if all goes according to plan after this week’s 25th World Economic Forum on Asean (WEF) in Kuala Lumpur. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25674/malaysia-to-sign-mous-with-kingdom/
IFC banking on smart graduates
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has provided a $13 million loan to support a higher education campus for the Acleda Institute of Business that will help raise education standards, enhance students’ employability and encourage sustainable economic growth. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25667/ifc-banking-on-smart-graduates/
Cha-Ching teaches financial literacy
Prudence Foundation, established by Prudential Life Insurance, launched its nationwide financial literacy program Cha-Ching yesterday. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cha-ching-teaches-financial-literacy
Prisons granted more funds to develop libraries
Cambodian’s prison libraries are set to receive an extra $600,000 in funding from the French Agency for Development and literacy NGO Sipar, according to a statement released yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24670/prisons-granted-more-funds-to-develop-libraries/
Cambodian journalists to receive training in the US
Cambodian journalists will visit the U.S. to observe the presidential election in November to learn from their American colleagues’ experience of covering the polls, a media development group has said. ...
Say Mony
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-journalists-to-receive-training-in-the-us/3313932.html
School budgets to be used to buy water
In an attempt to solve the water shortages plaguing schools across the country, the Minister for Education advised all schools to use money from their own budgets to buy water, despite some schools saying they do not have the funds to do so. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24540/school-budgets-to-be-used-to-buy-water/
Ministry cuts school hours amid severe heat wave
With the country grappling with drought and soaring temperatures, the Ministry of Education issued a directive on Monday cutting the amount of time students sit in sweltering classrooms for the remainder of the hot season. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-cuts-school-hours-amid-severe-heat-wave-112071/
Calls for increased budget for school development
Members of civil society have called on the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to increase the budget for development in schools by at least five percent to fix country-wide educational issues. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24320/calls-for-increased-budget-for-school-development/
Cambodian journalists, NGOs gather in China for sustainable development summit
Cambodian NGOs and journalists were invited to China last week by the China Foundation for Peace and Development (CFPD) for a discussion on sustainable development in the Kingdom. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24159/cambodian-journalists--ngos-gather-in-china-for-sustainable-development-summit/
Teachers’ homes to be made of illegal timber
Houses will be built for school teachers from illegally-felled timber seized by authorities, the Ministry of Education has announced, but before work can start on the new structures officials from the ministry have been asked to gather information on which schools need the houses the ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23767/teachers----homes-to-be-made-of-illegal-timber/
Government policy to boost STEM learning
The government has broadly adopted a policy to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) teaching in a bid to turn around the Kingdom’s dismal pass rates for the subjects in the 12th grade national examinations, according to a government official. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-policy-boost-stem-learning
Illegal timber to become school buildings
Cambodia’s schoolchildren could soon attend class in unusually luxurious buildings if Prime Minister Hun Sen has his way. Yesterday the premier granted the government’s entire stockpile of illegally-felled timber – some of which is highly sought after rosewood – to the Ministry of Education to ...
Ven Rathavong and Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23489/illegal-timber-to-become-school-buildings/
‘Eco-schools’ to try for a clean sweep in coming year
The Environment and Education Ministries will expand their eco-school program to all primary and secondary schools across the country over the course of 2017, provided they have the necessary human and financial resources to do so. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23235/---eco-schools----to-try-for-a----clean-sweep-in-coming-year/
Police shut down NGO event for indigenous communities
Police in Ratanakkiri province on Tuesday ordered rights group Adhoc to call off a planned workshop meant to inform local indigenous communities of their rights, claiming the NGO had failed to secure the necessary permission from authorities. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-shut-down-ngo-event-for-indigenous-communities-109947/
Hun Manet inaugurates Areng valley schools
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s son Hun Manet inaugurated four primary schools in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley on Monday, along with the head of a group known as the Cambodia Youth Movement 157, which donated the schools, a local official said on Tuesday. ...
Khoun Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-manet-inaugurates-areng-valley-schools-109283/