Kingdom lacks engineers: minister

29 May 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
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Because Cambodia’s youth has not focused enough on studying technical or engineering subjects, the Kingdom now faces a lack of human resources and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports plans to reform the country’s education system, according to the minister in charge. Minister Im Sethy said he foresaw businesses or office-work related subjects attracting more students at university level than engineering subjects. … According to the ministry’s Education Statistics and Indicators 2011-2012, Cambodia had 554,828 enrolled students studying from grade 7 to grade 12, while the students who finished high school totalled 90,000 last year. … Heng Vanda, principal of the Vanda Institute, said recently there were about 8,000 students majoring in accounting. …

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