The number of students enrolled in higher educational institutions in the new academic year has decreased compared to previous years, a trend which the education sector largely blames on the Covid-19 crisis.
Cambodian Higher Education Association chairman Heng Vanda told The Post on January 18 that since the Covid-19 outbreak students across all private universities, including his Vanda Institute had stopped paying tuition fees.
As for the new academic year, only about 40 per cent of students at Vanda Institute resumed their studies while others had temporarily suspend their studies and stopped paying tuition fees.
“Compared to the years before the pandemic, student enrolments for this year have dropped by around 40 per cent,” he said.
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Ministry commissions writers for academic materials in Khmer
Mon, 18 January 2021
The Research Creativity and Innovation Fund (RCI Fund) are assessing 621 proposals from 15 public and private higher educational institutions with faculty members who have applied for funding to write Khmer-language textbooks for use in higher education courses.
A press release from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport said the RCI Fund has sent a letter of response to 13 of the 15 higher educational institutions and is still in the process of examining the applications from the other two institutions.
The press release said four of the higher educational institutions that had all together proposed a total of 196 textbook titles had already provided the RCI Fund with the full documentation required for them which includes a synopsis of each textbook, an outline of the proposed book’s contents with chapter titles and subheadings, and a course description.