MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it is extending a 27.1 mln usd grant to help improve the quality of secondary education in Cambodia through institutional reforms, teacher training and improving facilities.
The project is estimated to cost 33.38 mln usd and the government of Cambodia will cover the balance.
The project involves enhancing the capacity of the government's ministry of education, youth and sport in planning, managing, administering and regulating the education system of the country.
Teacher training colleges will be provided with better facilities, while some 14,400 lower and upper secondary teachers will benefit from in-service training under the project. Around 300 upper secondary schools will also be assisted in school management, networking and improvement planning.
The project will also provide 350,000 upper secondary students with new textbooks and 7,000 upper secondary teachers with teachers' guides.
The overall quality and efficiency of education in Cambodia remains a serious concern. Low enrolment rates at the secondary level and low percentage of students completing school indicate there are large numbers of young people outside the school system who may be unskilled and unemployable, the ADB said.
Within the education system, schools have poor physical infrastructure and inadequate learning materials, laboratories and libraries. Teachers are also poorly qualified and unmotivated. Limited resources hamper the ability of the government to make improvements and the poor performance of the education system wastes whatever limited resources are available, it added.
TFN.newsdesk@thomson.com
The project is estimated to cost 33.38 mln usd and the government of Cambodia will cover the balance.
The project involves enhancing the capacity of the government's ministry of education, youth and sport in planning, managing, administering and regulating the education system of the country.
Teacher training colleges will be provided with better facilities, while some 14,400 lower and upper secondary teachers will benefit from in-service training under the project. Around 300 upper secondary schools will also be assisted in school management, networking and improvement planning.
The project will also provide 350,000 upper secondary students with new textbooks and 7,000 upper secondary teachers with teachers' guides.
The overall quality and efficiency of education in Cambodia remains a serious concern. Low enrolment rates at the secondary level and low percentage of students completing school indicate there are large numbers of young people outside the school system who may be unskilled and unemployable, the ADB said.
Within the education system, schools have poor physical infrastructure and inadequate learning materials, laboratories and libraries. Teachers are also poorly qualified and unmotivated. Limited resources hamper the ability of the government to make improvements and the poor performance of the education system wastes whatever limited resources are available, it added.
TFN.newsdesk@thomson.com
3 comments:
You give money to the ministry of education, youth and sport? How stupid is that. It will go to waste. It's not the training of teachers, stupid, it's the salary. Teachers are not motivated to teach at $30/a month.
You can train them as much as you want, but if they are not motivated to teach, it is worthless.
Only educations that can open our people eyes thru out the world, They be able to understand news thing around the world, Be able to give or to get news idea to help rebuild our country.But governments must pay more money to all teachers and the people work for the government.
*"p.o.v"
Sure, we will pay our teacher more moneys when we get higher tax revenue, but they must also justified it.
Currently, teachers are too corrupted, and they teach our children to be corrupted. Thus, teacher are not worth higher salary. And even if we want to pay them higher salary, we can't because teacher corruption deterred businesses from Cambodia and keep our tax revenue from growing. There is just no money to pay them (fools).
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