The launching ceremony of a new secondary school in Kratie City took place on Monday in the presence of Prime Minister Hun Sen and many other government officials from Kratie province. The high school comprises three main buildings with 48 classrooms.
In his speech, Prime Minister Hun Sen said that under his leadership, the Cambodian education sector has been rebuilt from scratch after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime - from learning under trees by using charcoal as chalk, and people who knew more taught people who knew less who, in turn, taught people who knew nothing.
The premier added that due to a constant peace in the country, many infrastructures and roads were built so that Cambodian provinces are connected to each other in the same way roads in the capital do. As a result, in the near future, university will be built in Kratie province where a teacher training center was already built.
"Through peace, we can hardly obtain the existing achievement. So, we have to do our best to preserve forever this achievement such as schools, roads, bridges, and hospitals etc," said Prime Minister Hun Sen.
According to the prime minister, the education sector is considered by his government as one of the top priorities in the development of the country.
Concerning education issue, Mr. Hang Chuon Naron, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport, previously told reporters that so far, under the prime minister's leadership, 4,140 school buildings have been built with the total of 24,105 classrooms.
Mr. Naron added that his ministry has given a high priority to "equitable access for high quality basic education services."
As a result, the MoEYS has been developing, in cooperation with many development partners, a strategic plan in order to maintain and reform the existing Cambodian education system. The plan is called “Education Strategic Plan 2014-2018,” or ESP.
The ESP is focusing on early childhood education, the expansion of the access to quality secondary and post-secondary education and non-formal education, and technical and vocational education. For marginalized children and youth, specific measures will be used to give them equal access to education.
As for the Asian Development Bank, the construction of new schools, the provision of scholarships, the abolition of informal school fees and the expansion of community-based early learning opportunities are the keys to success in the field of access to basic education.
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