Vol 6 No 1 (2012) Acceleration  and Improvement of the Quality and Quantity of Education Through the Provision of ODL Programs in SEA Countries

Om Sethy - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Cambodia

Abstract

Present Situation of the Cambodian Education System The Human resources for education in cambodia were non-existence over the past 30 years due to conf ict and instability. In 1979 national education restarted from zero and has gradually developed and progress up to the present system. Since 1996 the Cambodian schooling system has been reformed to 12 years (6+3+3). For the academic year 2006-2007, the total number of students was 3,3387,310(femaile: 1,574,900) and the number of educational staf grew to 94,723. There were 9,018 schools with a total 80,733 of classroom. On the other hand, there were 66 the higher institutions (26 public and 40 run private). For teacher training, currently there an 18 Provincial Teacher Training Colleges (PTTCs) for primary school teachers, 6 Regional Training Colleges (RTTCs) for lower secondary school teachers and 1 Pre School Teacher Training Center for pre-school teacher.

Since 2000, the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport(MoEYS) has embarked on policy-based sector-wide reform, guided by its five year rolling Education Strategic Plan (ESP) and Education Sector Support Program (ESSP), design to accelerate achievment of Education for All(EFA). This has been a challenging process, requiring extensive research and analysis of sector performance and trends in order to formulate new reform policies and strategies based on the existing educational major policies: to universalize 9 years of basic education and developing opportunities for functional literacy; to modernize and improve the quality of education through effective reform; to link education/training with labor market and society; to rehabilitate and develop youth and sport sub-sector. In terms of ICT in educational, the Government is taking steps to restore its human resource base, as such The Ministry uses ICT to broaden access and improve the quality of Education, adopting a longer-term systemic strategy to narrow the digital gap.