Two-year birth certificates have been required for junior and senior school examinations by the ministry of education in order to avoid accidentally wrong names and birth date on the list. But local authorities have charged the copied birth certificates between $2.50 to $5 in the provinces and $10 in Phnom Penh, just only stamped on, local newspaper reported.
I doubted that why the local authorities have to charge the students’ copied birth certificates. Is the commune council’s policy? This is possibly the obstacles to the poor students to fail to take exam or drop school. At the point, the ministry of education should immediately take it into consideration in order to reduce corruption in the local levels, and have to encourage and protect the interest of the school boys and girls.
The government always has encouraged all parents to enroll the students without paying anything. The government should participate in damaging inactive points happening in education sectors. Education is important role playing for young children and next generation because they will be able to be the country leaders in the future.
This photo described that “not money to pay my teacher, I dare not to attend school”, “my mum told me that enrollment is free, why does my teacher require me to pay money every day”. This photo is courtesy of Sony”
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The cartoon picture is misleading here, I think. The article is about “local authorities” taking bribe in return for the issuance of the birth certificates. Anyway, it’s a informative post. Thanks for sharing, really.
I hope the ministry of education will soon take action about it. Corruption in education really is troublesome to the nation’s poor children. I got my post here too about that I wrote back in Dec 07.