Education in Cambodia

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.

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 Interventionin 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.

“Education in Cambodia with its clearly presented tables, graphs and charts has been meticulously edited; and the layout and sub-section headings facilitate easy reading and subject searching. … Education in Cambodia - From Year Zero Towards International Standards is commended to this readership as a unique compilation. It also represents a challenge for further research and publication, especially by Cambodian nationals.” (David Sloper, Journal of International and Comparative Education, Vol. 12 (2), 2023)