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Living and learning on the Tonle Sap Lake
6 August 2024, Tonle Sap Lake, Pursat – On the Tonle Sap Lake, entire lives are lived and breathed on the water. For the children on the lake, education is a hard-won battle. Every morning, children as young as six navigate small boats to their floating schools, a tiring journey they often make on their own. Some...
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Indigenous students improve their mother tongue
5 December 2023, Ratanakiri – Despite getting a later start in school than many of her classmates, ten-year-old Chren Nai from Ratanakiri province has been working hard to keep up. “When we learn how to read and write well, when we grow up, we know how to think well,” says the indigenous Tompuon student at Nong ...
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Inclusive Education in Cambodia: Successes and Challenges
22 February 2024, Siem Reap - With a smile that could light up a room, 7-year-old Hak Sasda enters his integrated classroom in Siem Reap’s Prim Sa Sa Sdam primary school, an hour drive to the iconic Angkor Wat. Despite the challenges of cerebral palsy, Sasda's determination shines through as he grips his pencil ti...
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Indigenous pre-schoolers set-up for lifetime of learning
6 December, Ratanakiri – “There are too many people, I won’t sing,” whispers the confident four-year-old Kadoy Seyha to his mother in his native tongue, Cambodia’s minority Kreung language. She was trying to get him to show off what he’s been learning lately at pre-school, but he’s been in a bad mood this week bec...
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Ministry of Education Expands the Early Grade Learning Programme with CDPF Partners
"One of the biggest challenges in educating children in rural areas, along with limited technologies and equipment in schools, is when teachers’ lack the core pedagogical skills," says Ms Prom Kamsot, a teacher at Aknukvath Primary School in Kampong Speu province. From 17 to 20 December 2022, Ms Kamsot and colle...
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New National Action Plan on Early Childhood Care and Development launched to ensure no child is left behind
Phnom Penh, 7 th October 2022 – A new National Action Plan on Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) was launched today at a Phnom Penh event hosted by the National Committee for Early Childhood Care and Development. The National Committee includes 11 Government Ministries, and the event was attended by more ...
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Cambodia to assess student learning to strengthen post-COVID recovery efforts
Phnom Penh, 01 September 2022 – In June this year, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) started their participation in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a significant step towards understanding student learning outcomes, taking stock of what learners know, gauging the readine...
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The Royal Government of Cambodia and partners support quality education throughout the country’s COVID recovery
Kampong Chhnang, 4 November 2021 – Today the Minister of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) was joined by its Capacity Development Partnership Fund (CDPF III) partners to celebrate school reopenings in Kampong Chhnang to witness the use of the new Home Learning Packages which are being distributed to all 760,180 C...
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Royal Government of Cambodia and partners protect young children’s education with 760,180 home learning packages
Phnom Penh, 28 September 2021 - Today, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), supported by its Capacity Development Partnership Fund (CDPF) partners, the European Union (EU), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Swedish Developmen...
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Enhancing the Quality of Teacher Training for Inclusive Early Childhood Education
Teacher training is a driver of good quality education and critical to ensuring the right to quality education is achieved for every child. In light of the upcoming 30 th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF Cambodia takes a look at its work with the Provincial and District offices of ...
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Investing in Teacher Training for Children with Disabilities
Siem Reap, August 2019 – Girls and boys living with disability are struggling to realise their potential in Cambodia. They face difficulties accessing inclusive and equitable education services and their participation in community life is limited. If they don’t drop out, they face poor quality learning environment...
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2030 Not a Fairytale
"2030 Not a Fairytale" is a beautiful picture book dedicated to introducing young children to the seventeen Global Goals for Sustainable Development. In September 2015 world leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Global Goals are universal and c...