Education reforms ‘daunting’

Cambodia’s political culture is continuing to threaten the quality of primary education, and ambitious reforms are likely to fall flat unless changes are made at the ground level, according to a new report.

The report was published by the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) research centre this week, based on research and data collected last year.

“Ambitious, wide-ranging, top-down reform programmes . . . are likely to disappoint,” the report read. “Unless better incentives are provided, then, we would expect the local-level implementation of reforms to be patchy,” unless they had exceptional school directors or NGO support.

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