Campaign promotes free textbooks for students

26 August 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Government / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports / Primary and secondary education / Social development
Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia and the Pacific / ANSA-EAP / Khmer Institute for National Development / KIND / Ministry of Education / Seng Rithy

Two NGOs on Monday launched an online campaign to galvanize public support for providing students with free textbooks after a survey found that 85 percent of high-school pupils lack the necessary books for their studies.

The Khmer Institute for National Development (KIND) and the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia and the Pacific (ANSA-EAP) on Monday commenced a 30-day Facebook drive to draw attention to the need for study aids and to lobby the government to increase the Ministry of Education’s budget for textbooks.

In a joint press release to announce the campaign, KIND and ANSA-EAP said they surveyed nearly 500 pupils last year at 33 high schools in Phnom Penh and three provinces—Kompong Cham, Kompong Speu and Kampot—and found that 85 percent of the students did not have the textbooks they needed to properly prepare for their exams. …

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