Phnom Penh: Dr. Hang Chuon Naron, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, said that in the last 10 years, the profound reform of the education sector in Cambodia has entered a significant phase of change.
During a lecture on “Education Sector Reform in Cambodia” to the 2026 class of civil servants and interns of the Royal School of Public Administration, Dr. Hang Chuon Naron said that in order to make successful reforms, it is necessary to find key points that make positive changes and remember that we should not do the same thing year after year, there must be something new that responds to the social context, the world, and the latest developments in global technology.
He said that in the last 10 years, Since the start of the deep reform process in 2014, the education sector in Cambodia has entered a period of remarkable change with many advances. The Minister added that the most prominent of these is the tightening of high school entrance examination measures since 2014, eliminating the culture of copying and encouraging real efforts from students. “Those who know will succeed.” The education reform is divided into four phases: Phase 1: National Reform, Phase 2: Reform Focusing on the Five Pillars, Phase 3: School-level Reform, and Phase 4: Focusing on System Building and Capacity Development.
The Minister of Education emphasized that the progress of the reform over the past 10 years has changed both the school culture and the quality of the education system in Cambodia, focusing on “quality, accountability, and innovation” to respond to the digital economy era and the first phase of the Royal Government of Cambodia’s Pentagon Strategy, which prioritizes human resource development towards achieving Cambodia’s vision of 2030 as an upper-middle-income country and 2050 as a high-income country.
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