Education and training

Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided not to collect taxes from private educational institutions for another five years, from 2024 to 2028. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has thanked all higher education institutions for their active participation in human resource training, especially during the COVID-19 outbreak. ...

Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has appealed to all universities, both public and private, to do their best to improve the quality of education to suit with the graduates’ abilities and degrees. ...

The government has announced its intention to establish a nationwide digital network, known as Educational Broadcasting Cambodia (EBC). ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said last week that education and health sectors would be given the highest priority in the national budget as the government needs to invest in human development and the protection of human lives, while other sectors such as national defence and ...

The government has announced a new project to provide free technical and vocational training to about 1.5 million poor students a year.​ ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that up to 1.5 million young people, who could not afford higher education, will be able to receive free vocational training with an additional stipend as the government seeks to produce more labor skills. ...

The private education sector is thriving in Cambodia because there is an increase in talented human resources, a senior official said. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that some people had studied under leaky school roofs in Cambodia, but they underestimated the quality of education here. ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport announced that they would provide over 8,000 full scholarships for students to pursue undergraduate degrees for the next academic year 2023-2024. . ...

An official of the Ministry of Economy and Finance said that the lack of skills is a barrier to Cambodia becoming a high middle-income country, according to the vision of the Royal Government. ...

The Techo Sen Institute (TSI) – run by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport – and the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT) under the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications have announced plans to offer a number of scholarships to high school graduates. ...

Bunrany Hun Sen Chakriyavong, one of the only two high schools in the small coastal province of Kep, has recently added life skills to its curriculum in the hope that graduates will employ their skills to earn additional income to support their tertiary education. ...

The Department of Primary Education of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, in collaboration with Plan International Cambodia (PIC), have worked together to launch a new range of accelerated grade one textbooks to provide opportunities for aging children who previously dropped out of school. ...

The Government has vowed to improve student’s proficiency in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) skills as many students lack these key learning skills. ...

A total of 72.33 percent of students have passed their high school diploma, with students in Phnom Penh and Kandal receiving their results today while pupils in remaining provinces have to wait until tomorrow. ...

Mao Kolap, vice-president of Cambodian Librarian Associations, said yesterday that Cambodia requires more qualified librarians to match the standards of advanced libraries in other Asean countries. According to a report by the Cambodian Library Association, there are only three graduated librarians, while there are 400 ...

The Ministry of Education is preparing to include topics on cyberbullying, sexual exploitation and other online abuses in the school curriculum. ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia has spent about $26.5 million to build the first two national tourism vocational schools, in Phnom Penh and Preah Sihanouk. ...

The government is urging parents, especially those in the rural areas of the provinces, to register their children at community preschools. ...

Cambodia and China have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the joint development of Chinese language curricula in public secondary schools in the Kingdom, with 20 high schools having been selected for the pilot phase of the programme. ...

Media literacy refers to the ability to think objectively about the information a person comes into contact with through general media and, increasingly, social media. It is a common goal of the government and civil society organisations to bring this knowledge to the Cambodian people, ...

A $70 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will be utilised to aid the STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education nationwide in the upper secondary level. ...

The establishment of the Media & Information Literacy Network Cambodia (MIL-KH) is an important step towards providing problem-solving and critical thinking skills to young Cambodians to help them safely use digital communications, according to Oung Chanthol, executive director of the Women’s Media Centre of Cambodia ...