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Education loans with lowest interest rates

vutha — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:27:21 +0000

Higher education loans can help students to move for higher students at the right time with supporting benefits such as low interest rates and reasonable afforded repayment period. There are many private loans like federal student loans are made available with low interest rates that are more focused on the student’s development with [...]

Two Research Findings on Valentine’s Day in Phnom Penh in 2008 and 2009

vutha — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:03:40 +0000

(These two quantitative researches were conducted by Mr. Tong Soprach, Medical Public Health Independent Researcher in Cambodia. These findings on Valentine’s Day were done in 2008 and 2009)

Abstract 1: YOUNG PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT VALENTINE’S DAY IN PHNOM PENH IN 2008 (A Qualitative Study)

This study explores a new [...]

Buying lesson, cake, candy and paying money to teacher are corruption in education sector?

vutha — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:22:11 +0000

Schools will be able to be a training school to educate corruption, if schoolboys and schoolgirls are required to buy candy or cakes sold by teachers, or to pay party for teachers, or to buy gifts for teachers at the end of each year. And students have been forced to buy lessons [...]

Christmas day should not be a holiday for schoolchildren

vutha — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:10:25 +0000

As I remembered, when I was studying at primary school and secondary school, I never heard about what is the Christmas day and it is not the public day set in calendar of Cambodia’s public holiday. Christmas or Christmas day is a holiday observed generally on December 25th to commemorate the birth of [...]

Education ads on Valentine’s Day

vutha — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:21:51 +0000

Before the Valentine’s Day celebration on February 14, Cambodian teenagers seem to express their pleasures and they are also prepared already gifts for their loves. But what is important is that they do not understand well the meaning of Valentine’s Day. Therefore, the ministry of women’s affairs produces the five-minute [...]

Government institutions required to use Khmer Unicode

vutha — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:08:13 +0000

Recently, all government institutions have been required to switch their computers to the Khmer Unicode Standard. All government’s documents have to be typed in Khmer Unicode instead of previous different Khmer fonts.

Khmer Unicode fonts have been developed since 1996 and its standard was fixed in 1999. By the way, Unicode [...]

Students were required to pay informal school fee

vutha — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:48:36 +0000

Before starting to make discussion about Cambodia’s education sector, I just want to ask all of you whether you used to pay informal school fee to your teachers while you were at the State-primary and secondary schools. According to the Constitution, all children are encouraged to enroll into the public schools with free [...]

Choun Nath’s Electronic Khmer Dictionary updated

vutha — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:35:20 +0000

The Buddhist Institute launched the second edition of an electronic Khmer dictionary which is available for all Cambodian students and others to download on the internet with free of charge. Khmer dictionary is based on the work of revered Cambodian scholar and Buddhist patriarch Choun Nath.

The original [...]

Valentine’s Day confused young youths’ mind

vutha — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:22:13 +0000

As I remembered, the celebration of Valentine’s Day has been made since 2000 after the first national election. Young youths always keep this event in their mind and regard it as the special day for their true love. In reality, this event is not Khmer culture. When I was at [...]

Former students pays homage to Cambodian Scholar Keng Vannsak

vutha — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:36:31 +0000

The funeral of renowned Cambodian scholar Keng Vannsak, who passed way on Dec 18, was held Tuesday on the outskirts of Paris. Cambodian literature authority Khing Hoc Dy, who was one of Keng Vannsakâ€™s students in the 1960s, wrote a funeral oration on his late teacherâ€™s life and contribution to Cambodian culture and society. [...]

Young people and new ICT

vutha — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:55:17 +0000

In the modern era, the new technologies are growing much faster than the older information and communication technology (ICT) in developed and developing countries such as internet, mobile phone, computer use and so on. The young people are the main user of the new ICTs, especially the internet and more advanced features of [...]

Technology is engine of education

vutha — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:38:51 +0000

During three-day debate in workshop organized by the Department of Scientific Research in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports under fund support from Unesco. The workshop was focusing on International Trends in science and technology and their potential application in developing countries, by attending from other countries such as Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Papua New [...]

Habit of cheating during exam

vutha — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:37:27 +0000

Cambodia education is important but the annual exam for high Khmer school always have been held but the bad smell of irregularities, cheating, corruption always appeared during the day of exam while students paid some cash to exam proctors and controllers to allow them for cheating, copying and having answered checked by other students. That [...]

Dine out with friends

vutha — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:27:12 +0000

One of 10 students awarded scholarship in Fulbright Fellowship Program 2008-09 to pursue his graduate degree in USA is a friend of mine (Sim Hoychhoung ). Before leaving home country and friends, I had dinner with him and other friends together on Monday.

He tries his best to pass this scholarship, [...]

Decrease in social morality

vutha — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:45:53 +0000

Moral and ethic education is very important for social welfare, if the decrease in social morality is to cause problem in the society such as violence, conflict, drug-use, school-drop out, crime, robbery and so on. Strengthening and expanding social morality education is a key factor for social happiness and life-style.

On the contrary, [...]

Charity Party for collecting money to help poor students

vutha — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:17:09 +0000

On Sunday evening, I joined the party called â€œThe First Ever Youth Gathering Partyâ€ organized by the volunteer youths at Slek Toey Restaurant. The purposes of forming this network are to foster education outreach by procuring study materials to underprivileged kids and youths, to strengthen communication between teenagers, young children and other communities and [...]