Education in Cambodia

Many countries throughout the world spend a great deal of budget to develop and improve their education systems, and they even provide students loan to pursue studying. Education can lead human to be aware of what is happening to the global by getting information through reading and the media. Also, all fantastic technological innovations come from the ideas of well-educated people. In Cambodia, the education plays a vital role to generate human resource; however, the basic education system was seriously eradicated during the civil war. Thus, the war left miserable consequences and uneducated people. On our point of view, the education in Cambodia still has low quality due to several factors.

First of all, one of the significant factors is the personal issue that causes the quality of education in Cambodia to decline. The laziness is a bad behavior of some young Cambodian people when they are at the age of study. Most of the Cambodian students depend on their families, and they do not worry much about the study, particularly if their families are rich. “I do not have to care much about my studies because I am still young,” said 18-year-old Volreak, a student at Preah Sisowath High School. “With my family’s [financial] condition, I will have more opportunities to grab in the future.” “Plus, I am a teenager now and I want to fill this time with happy memories, not complexity,” he added (“Phnom Penh Post”).1 It shows that students do not have responsibility, nor do they have the real goals for their future. Some students are badly making friends that could lead them to be involved with drug abuse or the gang that break school rules and regulations.

In addition to the personal issue, family burden gives bad effects on the education in Cambodia. In the countryside, most of the people have big families that are poor and have financial problem. The poverty line in the rural areas of Cambodia is set at US $0.25 per person per daily consumption, 53.7% of the population...