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Anticipation grows over test scores
Rumours swirling in local media of a grade 12 exam pass rate of 80 per cent – which would mark a massive year-to-year improvement – were neither confirmed nor denied by the Ministry of Education yesterday, though some grading tests reported low scores in certain ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anticipation-grows-over-test-scores
Ministry defends pro-CPP speech at university
The Education Ministry on Monday defended a pro-CPP speech delivered to some 1,500 students at a university in Phnom Penh on Sunday, reasoning that the school did not breach the ministry’s new directive against political activity at academic institutions because classes had finished for the ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-defends-pro-cpp-speech-at-university-93048/
Names removed as teachers set to grade exams
Teachers gathered at nine Phnom Penh high schools Friday to anonymize grade 12 national exam papers, replacing the section where candidates’ personal details were listed with a secret identification code prior to grading. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/names-removed-as-teachers-set-to-grade-exams-92895/
In 2nd year of stricter exam, only one report of cheating
There was one recorded case of cheating during this year’s grade 12 exam—held on Monday and Tuesday—down from about 20 last year, when the Education Ministry implemented sweeping reforms to stamp out bribes and cheats from the exam process, according to the education minister. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-2nd-year-of-stricter-exam-only-one-report-of-cheating-92792/
Cambodia’s 'no cheating in exams' policy is working
Cambodia’s education minister says this year’s effort to prevent final-year students from cheating on their exams worked well, and he is confident results will be better than they were for the class of 2014. Many pupils will be hoping the same, given that 60 percent ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/education-minister-says-cambodia-no-cheatig-in-exams-policy-is-working/2932876.html
Repeat test takers learn to manage expectations
Nam Meng Ang, 18, had little confidence in his ability to pass the grade 12 national exam this year—which determines which students get to enter university—having failed last year’s test, and the retake offered several weeks later. ...
Aun Chhengpor and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/repeat-test-takers-learn-to-manage-expectations-92536/
State of the art high school to serve former scavengers
The Education Ministry on Tuesday oversaw the groundbreaking of a $4 million high school that will be built on land that was once the municipal dump in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. ...
Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/state-of-the-art-high-school-to-serve-former-scavengers-92538/
Exam a test of nerves
As the grade 12 national exam kicked off yesterday, the Ministry of Education said early indicators suggested a marked improvement on last year’s dismal results, though incidents of students caught cheating and others buckling under the pressure of the high-stakes test remained.The two-day exam began ...
Taing Vida and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/exam-test-nerves
Test takers say their prayers
On the eve of the grade 12 national exam students across Phnom Penh put down their revision notes and flocked to local pagodas and shrines yesterday, praying that they will pass the high-stakes test – and that the proctors will let them cheat.With testing starting ...
Taing Vida and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/test-takers-say-their-prayers
National exam monitors to double this year
More than 5,600 people have volunteered to monitor the national high school examination next week, an Anti-Corruption Unit official said Wednesday, more than double the number of observers who supervised the test last year. ...
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-exam-monitors-to-double-this-year-92117/
Schooled on penalties
Despite unprecedentedly strict anti-cheating measures being implemented in last year’s grade 12 examinations, the Kingdom’s Anti-Corruption Unit pledged yesterday that punishments will be tougher still for proctors caught selling answers and accepting bribes this time around. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/schooled-penalties
Ahead of ‘clean’ exams, bookshops see fall in business
The owners of bookshops near the Bak Touk High School would usually be doing a roaring trade at this time of year. The grade 12 examinations each August have long been an annual boom time for the shops where students copied cheat sheets for the ...
Leng Sreynich
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ahead-of-clean-exams-bookshops-see-fall-in-business/2924131.html
As exam nears, bribes replaced with tutoring fees
Beginning with last year’s Grade 12 national exam, the Education Ministry put a stop to the time-honored tradition of teachers taking bribes to allow students to cheat on the test, drastically reducing the passing rate among students and the profit-making potential for proctors. ...
Janelle Retka and Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-exam-nears-teachers-replace-bribes-with-tutoring-fees-92015/
Ministry breaks ground on new tech institute
The Ministry of Education on Monday broke ground on a new Institute of Technology campus in Kompong Speu province’s Thpong district that officials said is being built with funds from the Thai royal family on land partially donated by agribusiness magnate Ly Yong Phat. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-breaks-ground-on-new-tech-institute-91900/
New Education ministry ban comes under fire
The backlash began Wednesday against a new Education Ministry directive that bans political activities and unauthorized associations at academic institutions, with the country’s largest teachers’ union and various youth groups accusing the government of hypocrisy. ...
Mech Dara and Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-education-ministry-ban-comes-under-fire-91534/
Ministry warns of punishment for political activity at schools
The Ministry of Education has issued a directive banning political activism or association at academic institutions, saying it will fine or shut down universities, post-secondary schools and student organizations that have engaged in or promoted political activity. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-warns-of-punishment-for-political-activity-at-schools-91454/
Minister says national exam costs are fair
With the Grade 12 national high school exam about two weeks away, a group of five NGOs sent a letter to the Ministry of Education on Monday asking the government to prevent guesthouses from hiking their prices for students who have to stay overnight in ...
Huot Chanpav and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-says-national-exam-costs-are-fair-91374/
China offers scholarships to 62 Cambodian students
Sixty-two Cambodian students have gotten annual scholarships for their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in various universities in China, according to Chinese News Agency (Xinhua). ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/china-offers-scholarships-to-62-cambodian-students-8789
Education Ministry to enforce more teaching hours
The Education Ministry plans to improve the quality of education in primary schools across the country by enforcing stricter protocols for teaching hours, said Education Minister Dr. Hang Chuon Naron on Thursday. ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13600/education-ministry-to-enforce-more-teaching-hours/
Cambodia inaugurates China-funded school building
Cambodia on Thursday inaugurated a three-story school building at the Indradevi High School here, which was donated by China Foundation for Peace and Development. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6616722/2015/07/16/cambodia-inaugurates-china-funded-school-building
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
Anti-graft programs launch
Two anti-corruption initiatives were announced yesterday to encourage transparency and ethically engaged citizenship, particularly among Cambodia’s youth. ...
Pech Sotheary and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-graft-programs-launch
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/
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