This book is the most comprehensive account yet published about the education system in Cambodia. It covers all system levels and draws upon the knowledge and insights of a wide range of leading Cambodian and foreign scholars. The book focuses on how the system has developed and is making progress. Significant achievements over the past two decades are evident, but many problems remain, including the poor quality of teaching, research and institutional management. Under-funding is an ongoing obstacle, but so too is a bureaucratic culture of resistance to change, a history of weak governance, and an anti-reform sentiment deriving from a teacher-centred and exam-driven curriculum. Achieving international standards must now be the system's highest priority. To this end, the system must rid itself of conservatism, complacency and manipulation by parochial vested interests.

Autorentext

Vincent McNamara has for almost 30 years been a consultant, policy analyst, and senior advisor for a succession of high-level planning and evaluation projects in Cambodia. Before working in Cambodia, he was a senior executive within ministries in Papua New Guinea and Australia. He was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 1977 for his service to educational leadership. He has also been recognised as a Fellow by the Australian College of Education. Martin Hayden is an Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at Southern Cross University, Australia. He has published extensively on higher education policy issues in Australia and Southeast Asia. Since 2005, he has been actively engaged as a higher education consultant across the Southeast Asian region, including Cambodia, working on projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the ASEAN Secretariat, the Belgian Government, the Australian Government, and various others.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Education in Cambodia: An Overview.- Part 1 Issues at the Sector Level.- Chapter 2 Early Childhood Education in Cambodia: Current Challenges and Development Trends.- Chapter 3 Primary School Education in Cambodia: In Search of Quality.- Chapter 4 Progress with Reforming Secondary Education in Cambodia.- Chapter 5 Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Cambodia 1970-2020.- Chapter 6 Higher Education in Cambodia: The Constraining Effects of Traditional Values.- Part 2 Cross-Sector and Policy Issues.- Chapter 7 The Teaching Profession in Cambodia: Progress To Date and Ongoing Needs.- Chapter 8 Cambodia National Assessment: A Summary of Ten Years of Student Achievement Results.- Chapter 9 School Leadership in Cambodian Schools.- Chapter 10 Capacity Development in Cambodia: The Challenge of Changing an Educational Culture.- Chapter 11 Policy-based Budgeting: Financing Priority Education Reforms in Cambodia.- Chapter 12 (Higher) Education Policy and Project Intervention in Cambodia: Its Development Discourse.- Chapter 13 Reforming Cambodian Universities: Building Best Practice at the Royal University of Phnom Penh.- Chapter 14 Accrediting Higher Education Institutions in Cambodia: A Baseline Study of Graduate School Programs.- Part 3 Stakeholder Inclusion Issues.- Chapter 15 Cambodian Women and Girls: Challenges to and Opportunities for Participation in Higher Education.- Chapter 16 Multilingual Education for Ethnic Minorities in Cambodia.