EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

IN CAMBODIA
ALVIN O. BENITEZ
MIRASOL
ESPIRITU
 Education in Cambodia

Department of Education – Provincial Level

Ministry of Education- National Level
 Cambodia Quality of Education
 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. To improve the
quality of primary school education by incorporating interactive, child-friendly teaching strategies into the Teacher
Training College curriculum and to improve the effectiveness of classroom teaching practice by training teachers in
interactive teaching strategies with minimal resources

1. Gaming the education system

2. Classrooms promote peace promoting peace school community and enjoying social coexistence and harmony in life
3. A Million voices for Education
4. New opportunities for young Graduates Improving the social life of the individual and appreciate work and labor,
work cooperatively with others. 
 Problems of Education in Cambodia

1. REGIONAL FACTOR
2. PERSONAL OR FAMILY FACTOR
3. SCHOOL FACTOR 
School life in Cambodia
 The school year begins in October. children begin school at 7:00am and
wear uniforms with white shirts and dark skirts or pants. Students learn
to read, write and do arithmetic in Khmer.

 Cheating is such a problem in Cambodia that police are sometimes

deployed around schools during important annual examinations.
Teachers are reportedly so poorly paid that they sell examination
answers to their students so they can make enough money to feed their
families. 

 Many Cambodians cannot read. The adult literacy rate is around 65

percent. In the early 2000s, UNICEF estimated that 65 to 70 percent of
all Cambodian children started school, but many repeated first grade
two or three times or dropped out by the second grade. Most of the drop
outs were girls