Ethnic minorities to receive bilingual education: gov’t

12 November 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Government / Human rights / International relations / Primary and secondary education / Social development
Bangkok / Bilingual Education Committee / Care Cambodia / Marginalised Ethnic Minorities Programme / Ministry of Education Youth and Sport / MLE / MoEYS / Pa Satha / Ton Sa Im / UNESCO

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, undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) announced a five-year plan, to be signed off in December, that would expand Multi Language Education (MLE) initiatives for indigenous communities in Cambodia.

At the event, which ran from November 6 to 8, she said the ministry had decided to develop a plan to ensure smooth implementation of this expansion and hold a review of the current program to decide whether its quality needs to be improved.

The plan will decide how many languages will be added to the program, how many more schools it will cover and how many new staff will have to be trained. …

 Emily Wight
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