Dr. Sam Rany-Cambodia

Tuesday, 31 July 2012 Stuart Alan Becker   Om Yentieng, president of the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit, speaks to a packed house last night at Sunway Hotel in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh Post   People who make illegal facilitation payments to get government services will now face harsh penalties under Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Law, just as the government officials who receive the money face charges, according to the President of Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit. Speaking to a packed house last night at Sunway Hotel, the President of Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit Orm Yentieng said the law was on the ACU’s side and that corruption in Cambodia was going to be reduced over time. “If you think your government salary is too low, you can get out of the position,” Orm Yentieng said, earning a round of applause. During his speech and question-and-answer session at the CAMFEBA event, attended by many of Phnom Penh’s business leaders, the ACU chief revi

By Simon Quattlebaum | Substitute Teacher, New Jersey Public Schools Educators must understand the concepts in processing professional development and what it means to education. The National Staff Development Council (2007) created a set of nine standards that all professional development should follow. They include content knowledge and quality teaching, research-basis, collaboration, diverse learning needs, student learning environments, family involvement, evaluation, data-driven design, and teacher learning. However, it does not determine whether accountable measures are being gathered to determine if this information has benefited the education system as a whole. Professional development refers to the development of a person in his or her professional role. According to Glattenhorn (1987), by gaining increased experience in one’s teaching role they systematically gain increased experience in their professional growth through examination of their teaching abili

By Robert S. Lapiner | Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Continuing Education, New York University Until the expansion of the European Union in the late 1980’s, it would have been difficult to generalize about the place of post-tertiary education in European countries. Although each nation had its own expression of forms of adult learning—going back to diverse 19th-century models for worker education—many social, cultural and economic factors contributed to the absence of a developed continuing higher education infrastructure comparable to the U.S. and Canadian experience. These included the historically small percentage of adults who completed university study; the large government sector comprising a higher percentage of the workforce than in North America, and traditions of employment continuity everywhere. As for those long-serving employees (including those in executive roles) needing to update their knowledge, in-service training delivered in-house had been nor

ដោយ ទីន ហ្សាការីយ៉ា   ក្រុម​អ្នក​តាម​ដាន​សង្គម រិះគន់​ការ​បំពេញ​ការងារ​របស់​មន្ត្រី​រាជការ​មួយ​ចំនួន ថា​ធ្វើ​ការ​បែប​ការិយាធិបតេយ្យ និង​អសមត្ថភាព​នៅ​ក្នុង​ការ​គ្រប់គ្រង​ស្ថាប័ន​នីមួយៗ។ ក្រុម​អ្នក​ស្រាវជ្រាវ​ផ្នែក​អភិវឌ្ឍន៍​សង្គម បាន​លើក​ឡើង​ថា មន្ត្រី​រាជការ​បម្រើ​ការងារ​នៅ​តាម​ស្ថាប័ន​រដ្ឋ ធ្វើ​ការ​បាត់បង់​នូវ​ក្រម​សីលធម៌ វិជ្ជាជីវៈ និង​គ្មាន​វិន័យ ពីព្រោះ​ថា នៅ​តាម​ស្ថាប័ន​ទាំង​នោះ បុគ្គលិក​នីមួយៗ​ធ្វើ​ការ​មិន​បង្ក​ភាព​ងាយ​ស្រួល​ដល់​អ្នក​ទៅ​ទទួល​សេវា​ នោះ​ឡើយ។ អ្នក​ស្រាវជ្រាវ​បាន​ពន្យល់​ថា មន្ត្រី​រាជការ​ទាំង​អស់ ទោះ​បី​ជា​បំពេញ​ការងារ​ប្រចាំ​ថ្ងៃ​មិន​សកម្ម មិន​យក​ចិត្ត​ទុក​ដាក់​នឹង​ការងារ​យ៉ាង​ណា​ក៏ដោយ ក៏​ពួក​គេ​មិន​ប្រឈម​នឹង​ការ​ទទួល​ទោស​កំហុស​អ្វី​ដែរ ពិសេស​មិន​ប្រឈម​នឹង​ការ​ដក​ចេញ​ពី​ការងារ​ដូច​បុគ្គលិក​បម្រើ​ការងារ​នៅ​ ក្រុមហ៊ុន​ឯកជន​នោះ​ទេ ដែល​បញ្ហា​ទាំង​នេះ​វា​រាំង​ស្ទះ​ដល់​ការ​អនុវត្ត​ការងារ​ឲ្យ​មាន​ ប្រសិទ្ធភាព។ អ្នក​ស្រាវជ្រាវ​ផ្នែក​អភិវឌ្ឍន៍​សង្គម លោក កែម ឡី មាន​ប្រសាសន៍​ថា អស់​រយៈពេល​ជាង ៣០​ឆ្នាំ​កន្លង​មក​នេះ ទាំង​រដ្ឋាភិបាល ទាំង​ប្រទេស​ជា​ម្ចាស់​ជ

ទស្សនៈព្រឹត្តិការណ៍សេដ្ឋកិច្ចខ្មែរ ដោយ គី សុខលីម ពី​មួយ​ឆ្នាំ​ទៅ​មួយ​ឆ្នាំ​ ប្រទេស​កម្ពុជា​បាន​ផលិត​ធនធាន​មនុស្ស​កាន់តែ​ច្រើន​ឡើងៗ។ ជាក់ស្តែង សាលា​រៀន​ដែល​ជា​ថ្នាល​បណ្តុះ​បណ្តាល​ធនធាន​មនុស្ស​បាន​បើកទ្វារ​កាន់តែ​ ច្រើន​ឡើង​ៗ​ ទាំង​នៅ​ក្នុង​ទីក្រុង​ភ្នំពេញ​ ទាំង​នៅ​តាម​បណ្តា​ខេត្ត​នានា​នៅ​ក្នុង​ប្រទេស។ ក្នុង​មួយ​ឆ្នាំ​ៗ​និសិត្ស​ច្រើន​ពាន់​ម៉ឺន​នាក់​បាន​ចេញ​ពី​សាកល​ វិទ្យាល័យ។ ជាការពិត ជា​រៀងរាល់​ឆ្នាំ​ មាន​និសិ្សត​ច្រើន​ពាន់​នាក់​បាន​បញ្ចប់​ការ​សិក្សា​មែន ​ប៉ុន្តែ​សំណួរ​ដែល​កំពុង​ចោទ​ឡើង​ គឺ​​ទាក់ទង​ទៅ​នឹង​គុណភាព​អប់រំ​ នៅ​ក្នុង​ប្រទេស​ក្រីក្រមួយនេះ។ ប្រសិនបើ​គេ​និយាយ​ក្នុង​ក្របខណ្ឌ​ក្នុង​ប្រទេស ​និង​ផ្អែក​លើហេតុផល​ក្រោយ​របប​ប៉ុលពត​ ជាការ​មិន​អាច​ប្រកែក​បាន​គឺ​ថា គុណភាព​អប់រំ​របស់​កម្ពុជា​មាន​ការ​រីក​ចម្រើន​ទៅ​មុខ​គួរ​សម​មែន ​ប៉ុន្តែ​ប្រសិន​បើ​គេ​ធ្វើ​ការ​ប្រៀបធៀប​គុណភាព​អប់រំ​របស់​កម្ពុជា​ជាមួយ​ ប្រទេស​នៅ​ក្នុង​តំបន់​​ ឬ​ប្រទេស​អភិវឌ្ឍន៍​ធំ​ៗ​វិញ​ វិស័យ​អប់រំ​កម្ពុជា​ស្ថិត​នៅ​ឆ្ងាយ​ដាច់​ពី​គេ​សឹង​ហៅ​មិន​ឮ។   តើ ​ មូលហេតុ ​ អ្វី ​ បាន ​ ជា ​ វិស័យ ​ អប់រំ ​​ កម្ពុជា

Tuesday, 31 July 2012 ប៉ែន មីរ៉ាន់ដា   វត្ត​អារាម ជា​ទី​សក្ការ​របស់​ប្រជា​ពលរដ្ឋ​ខ្មែរ​ប្រមាណ ៩០ % ដែល​កាន់​សាស​នា​ព្រះ​ពុទ្ធ ដែល​ជា​សាសនា​របស់​រដ្ឋ។ យើង​កត់​សម្គាល់​ឃើញ​ថា ចំនួន​ព្រះ​សង្ឃ និង​វត្ត​អារាម កំពុង​តែ​កើន​ឡើង ហើយ​ការ​សាង​សង់ ត្រូវ​បាន​យក​ចិត្ត​ទុក​ដាក់ ដោយ​រាជ​រដ្ឋា​ភិបាល និង​សប្បុរស​ជន​នានា។ តែ​បើ​ក្រឡេក​មើល​ចំនួន និង​ទំនើប​កម្ម​មជ្ឈ​មណ្ឌល​ស្រាវ​ជ្រាវ និង​មន្ទីរ​ពិសោធន៍​វិញ មិន​មាន​ការ​កើន​ឡើង​គួរ​ឲ្យ​កត់​សម្គាល់​ឡើយ។ ឈរ​លើ​គោល​ការណ៍​អា​ ស៊ាន​ដែល​នឹង​បង្កើត​សមា​គមសេដ្ឋ​កិច្ច​អាស៊ាន (ASEAN Economic Community, AEC) ត្រឹម​ឆ្នាំ ២០១៥ និង​គោល​ការណ៍​សកល​ភា​វូប​នីយ​កម្ម កម្ពុជា​នឹង​ប្រឈម​ការ​ប្រកួត​ប្រជែង​ផលិត​ផល​ទាំង​បរិមាណ​និង​គុណភាព​នៅ​លើ ទីផ្សារ​តំបន់ និង​ពិភព​លោក។ តើ​កម្ពុជា ត្រូវ​ត្រៀម​លក្ខណៈ​បែប​ណា​ខ្លះ ដើម្បី​កែប្រែ​ការ​ប្រឈម​ឲ្យ​ទៅ​ជា​ឱកាស ពាណិជ្ជ​កម្ម និង​សេដ្ឋកិច្ច? តើ​រដ្ឋាភិ​បាល ឬ​សប្បុរស​ជន ពាណិជ្ជ​ករ គួរ​ប្រើ​ថវិកា​ខ្លះ ដើម្បី​ការ​សាង​សង់​មជ្ឈ​មណ្ឌល​ស្រាវ​ជ្រាវ និងមន្ទីរ​ពិសោធន៍​វិទ្យា​សាស្ត្រ​ដែរ​ឬ​ទេ? ជា​ដំបូង តួនា​ទី​វត្ត​អារាម​ពិត​ជា​សំ

Time 29 July 2012 Issue No:232   Because many Chinese students have trouble making sense of the American admissions process, a huge industry of education agents has arisen in China to help guide them – and, in some cases, to do whatever it takes to get them accepted, writes Justin Bergman for Time . This autumn, David Zhu will join an exodus of Chinese students boarding planes for the leafy, beer-soaked campuses of American colleges and universities, a dream his parents have had since they started saving a $157,000 nest egg for his education. The 21-year-old hired an education agent in China to clean up and ‘elaborate’ on the essay he submitted as part of his application. Stories like Zhu’s are becoming increasingly common, and this has created a thorny ethical dilemma in the US. According to a 2010 report by the consultancy Zinch China, eight out of every 10 Chinese undergraduate students use an agent to file their applications. And with such intense competiti

Xinhuanet 29 July 2012 Issue No:232   A little more than a month after sitting the gaokao , China's college entrance exam, Zeng Mengyao is celebrating her results. She will attend Xiamen University in China's eastern Fujian Province. Zeng's dream to be admitted to a prestigious university would have been crushed without the national preferential policy introduced by the Ministry of Education this year, reports Xinhuanet . According to this year's college admission plan, 12,100 higher education vacancies will be allocated to students from 680 poverty-stricken counties in 21 provincial areas. Residents in these counties had an annual per capita income of CNY2,676 (US$418) last year, about half the national average. Statistics from the Ministry of Education show that the national average admission rate in some leading universities last year was 8.5%, while the number in the 680 impoverished counties was 5.7%. Zeng fell eight points short of the admi

BBC News 29 July 2012 Issue No:232   A private college in London has been given the power to award its own degrees in a move the government says will increase competition in England's higher education system, writes Angela Harrison for BBC News . Regent's College, which is in London's Regent's Park, says it hopes to get university status in the near future. It is one of two private colleges being given degree-awarding powers this week and which are the first to get the right since the coalition government came to power. The identity of the second college has not yet been made public. Until now, people studying at Regent's College have received degrees through its partnerships with various universities and institutions, including the Open University. Students study for British and American degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Most pay fees of about £14,000 a year. 

Yale Daily News 29 July 2012 Issue No:232   Despite reaffirming its partnership with Peking University seven months ago, Yale has decided this summer that it will not continue its programme sending undergraduates to live and study at the Chinese institution, citing low student enrolment, write Gavan Gideon, Daniel Sisgoreo and Tapley Stephenson for Yale Daily News . Yale College Dean Mary Miller, whose office recommended the programme’s cancellation, said the Peking University-Yale University Joint Undergraduate Programme in Beijing became financially unsustainable due to weak participation, with only four students signed up this autumn. Though Yale President Richard Levin called the programme a “great success” when Yale renewed its commitment to the partnership in December, enrolment has consistently been below the level administrators had hoped for since the programme was launched in 2006. Miller said it was not sustainable to have staff outnumbering students.

Press Trust of India 29 July 2012 Issue No:232   India's online education market size is set to grow to US$40 billion by 2017 from the present US$20 billion, reports the Press Trust of India . “We expect drastic changes in online education in the next two- to three-year period,” LoudCloud Systems Chief Technology Officer Anil Sonkar said. India has one of the largest education systems in the world, with a network of more than a million schools and 18,000 higher education institutions. More than half of the country's 1.2 billion population falls in the target market for education and related services. LoudCloud is engaged in providing e-learning technologies in India. It has roped in Odisha-based Centurion University of Technology and Management for their distance education branch, which is set to start in June 2013, he said.

The Korea Herald 29 July 2012 Issue No:232   A number of South Korean universities have been falsifying graduate employment data to raise funds and attract students, according to a government investigation, writes Oh Kyu-wook for The Korea Herald . The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced last Thursday after a two-month investigation that it found 28 universities across the country had falsely reported the employment rate for their graduates. The ministry report came as an increasing number of universities in the country face declining student enrolment and tightened budgets. “The graduate employment rate is an important indicator when we value universities. So some of them tried to fake the numbers in order to receive funds from the government,” an official said. The ministry currently funds universities based on an annual evaluation, and the graduate employment rate is one of the most important points of the report, he added. Full report

Frank Ziegele and Gero Federkeil 29 July 2012 Issue No:232   In a recent article in University World News Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, warned that rankings needed to be handled with care. If we consider the impact international rankings have today, we can only agree with Baty’s notion that “authority brings responsibility”. In more and more countries – Baty cited examples – a good league table position in the major global rankings plays a decisive role in policies of cooperation of universities with foreign institutions, as well as with regard to the recognition of foreign degrees and the portability of loans and scholarships. These are clear signs of a dangerous overuse of rankings. No ranking has been introduced for these purposes and – hopefully – most producers of rankings would reject this role. But we want to argue that ranking providers should not only object to misuses: it is more important to design ran

William Patrick Leonard 29 July 2012 Issue No:232   In an article in The Seattle Times last month, featured in University World News , two members of the University of Washington’s board are quoted as saying: “This is the fourth year in a row our students have seen a double-digit tuition increase…It can’t go on.” The University of Washington is not alone in facing declining external support. The American higher education community’s prospects for its own sustainability are questionable. It is unlikely to endure as we know it, with reliance on tuition fee and enrolment increases compensating for the failure to more rigorously control costs and balance budgets. Public and non-profit private institutions alike have focused for too long on short-term solutions. Without a large endowment income cushion, the bulk of US public and non-profit private institutions have been focused on the short-term imperative of bringing revenues in line with an array of immediate,

Alya Mishra and Yojana Sharma 29 July 2012 Issue No:232   For Indian students, higher education in Britain is no longer an attractive option owning to tougher visa rules and withdrawal of a post-work visa option. According to consultants and students, the UK is being replaced by Canada and Australia as the preferred destinations for graduate study. “The number of students going to study in the UK has declined sharply following the changes to the post-student work visa regulations,” said Naresh Gulati, CEO of Oceanic Consultants, a leading overseas education agency. “The number is likely to go down further if corrective action is not taken in the immediate future. “Other countries such as Australia have gained after making some significant changes to visa regulations that seem to appeal to the Indian student,” Gulati said. Study Overseas, a foreign education consultancy in New Delhi, confirmed the decline in the numbers of students heading for the UK in recent

David Jobbins 25 July 2012 Issue No:232   Quacquarelli Symonds Limited, publisher of the QS World University Rankings, has defended the use of quality marks granted to universities that have paid to go through an audit process. Universities apply to be audited and pay for a process that judges them across 51 criteria that can lead to the awarding of up to five QS 'stars' that are visible against the institution’s entry in the ranking. In contrast with the rankings, which draw on a small amount of globally available, largely public data, the QS stars system examines criteria such as facilities, access, engagement and innovation. The stars appear seamlessly alongside the listing for each university on the World University Rankings , despite protestations from QS that the two are totally separate operations. The UK magazine Private Eye reported in its current issue that two Irish universities – the University of Limerick and University College Cork, UCC –

Say Mony , VOA Khmer 27 July 2012  A NLONG VENG - Despite some pressure on the Khmer Rouge tribunal to pursue more cases, former Khmer Rouge cadre in the former stronghold of Anlong Veng say they are uneasy with the prospect of further arrests. One resident here in the district in Oddar Meanchey province, Um Mek, said he always wanted to see Khmer Rouge leaders held accountable for atrocities committed under their rule. So, the father of three daughters said recently, bringing the top leaders to trial was the right thing to do. “The Khmer Rouge leaders then did the wrongdoings,” he said. “So they must now be brought to trial.” He said he agrees with the ongoing atrocity crimes trial of Nuon Chea, the regime’s ideologue; Khieu Samphan, its head of state; and Ieng Sary, its foreign minister. But like many here in this remote part of northern Cambodia, Um Mek said he is uncomfortable with further prosecutions.

AFP Cambodian students travel on boats to school through floodwaters in Kandal province, east of Phnom Penh, Oct. 3, 2011. 2012-07-26 Reports of bribery in Cambodian schools underscore the country's uphill battle against corruption. Cambodian schoolchildren are being forced to pay bribes to pass high school admissions tests, a senior local  educator said on Thursday while calling on the country’s Ministry of Education to have students retake their most recent exams. “These tests must be taken again, as the results of the previous tests are not valid,” Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association president Rong Chhun told RFA in an interview. Proctors and examiners for junior high school students are requiring payments of between U.S. $30 to U.S. $60 for a passing grade on high school entrance exams, Rong Chhun said, adding that “middlemen” are charging similar amounts for assurances the bribes will reach the right people. “There is a price

  Tuesday, 24 July 2012 Bridget Di Certo   American historian David Chandler testifies in Case 002 at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Photograph: ECCC/POOL   It was historian David Chandler who appeared to be on trial yesterday at the Khmer Rouge tribunal as defence teams spent the day putting Chandler’s previous writings and testimony under the microscope. Even co-accused Brother No 2 Nuon Chea had two questions of his own for the one-time US diplomat who has spent the better part of his academic career researching Cambodia and the Democratic Kampuchea period. “From the very beginning until now,” Nuon Chea began, pausing to don thick reading glasses, “between the people of Cambodia and Vietnam, what has been the course of this dispute?” “If one is looking for a phrase, I would say, a lot of history and mutual distrust,” Chandler answered, thanking Nuon Chea – “a person whom I do respect” – for his question. Nuon Chea’s lawyers then attempted