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Flood instructions issued for schools to bolster safety
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport on Wednesday issued guidelines for schools to lessen the impact of flood damage. Minister Hang Chuon Naron said the recent flash floods have affected school buildings, study materials and equipment. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flood-instructions-issued-schools-bolster-safety
Ministry of Education receives more than 100 complaints
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has received so far more than 100 complaints from students and students’ parents requesting the ministry to review the exam scores after they failed this year’s exam. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/ministry-of-education-receives-more-than-100-complaints-8976
Teachers to get wage hike
Cambodia’s lowest paid high-school and primary-school teachers will receive a $25 increase to their base monthly salary by the end of May, the government revealed on Monday. Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the raise at the opening of the National Literacy Campaign on Monday and reiterated ...
Tat Oudom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/teachers-get-wage-hike
Barred from exam, grade 12s protest
Fifty-two students in Kampong Thom are blaming teacher favouritism and an inherently unequal system for preventing them from sitting the national exam and graduating this year. The students, from Hun Sen Taing Kork High School in Baray district, filed a petition to the provincial department of ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/barred-exam-grade-12s-protest
Exam proctors promised pay boost
The Ministry of Education is promising to pay national exam proctors double the fees earned last year in its newest move to stymie widespread bribes exchanged for exam answers or inflated scores. Previously, proctors earned an average salary of 190, 000 riel ($47.50) over the three-day ...
Chhay Channyda, P.4
http://phnompenhpost.com
National testing could widen
Cambodia may soon have new standardised exams to hold its students, teachers and education system accountable. “Everyone agrees that the improved enrolment rates in primary school is an accomplishment; at the same time, everyone also calls for quality-control improvement [which] means better testing,” said Jan ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-testing-could-widen