No cheating in exam finals marks sea change for Cambodia

5 January 2015
Big News Network
Education and training / Education policy and administration / Government / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports / Social development
Hang Chuon Naron / Ministry of Education Youth and Sports

Cambodia’s final exam results for 2014 were disastrous, with more than half of the 90,000 students failing. The reason? The authorities stamped out cheating – the first of a series of reforms designed to fix the impoverished country’s broken education sector. …

The new policy is courtesy of Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron, appointed a year ago after a decade as a deputy finance minister. Naron said reforming education is critical to Cambodia’s development. …

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