Bribes on rise for test takers
More than half a million dollars in bribes were paid to teachers during last month’s national exams by high school students in Phnom Penh alone, the authors of a new study have found. The study, conducted by the Youth Resource Development Program, found that the average student spent $35 on bribes, up from $30 in 2012 – a 16.6 per cent increase, YRDP staff said yesterday. “There were 19,078 exam takers in Phnom Penh. If you multiply that by $35, it’s a total of $667,756 spent in only two and a half days [of exams]. This does not include the money [students] spent on buying the cheat sheets outside,” Hang Soviet, senior assistant of the youth empowerment program at YRDP, said yesterday. …
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