Living in Phnom Penh My Living in the Cambodian Capital as Political Atheist.

Corruption, funding shortages and an obsession with profit are plaguing the quality of university education in Cambodia.

Corruption in higher education in Cambodia

If the government hopes to keep its best and brightest at home, it must resolve these issues and build a world-class university system from within.

Mushrooming of private universities.

Obstacles hindering Cambodia’s higher education system include low salaries for teachers – which force them into second jobs – a lack of materials and equipment and a “mushrooming” of the private system.

Lack of rules and regulations.

Cambodia’s system lacks rules, regulations and uniformity, which results in students not being taught “the basics” of university, such as meeting deadlines and avoiding plagiarism.

97 university organizations.

Cambodia’s higher education sector, which comprises 97 institutions, 38 of them public, has come a long way since the 1990s, when only students who won scholarships could study.

Low salaries for university teachers.

Public university teachers earn at least US$100 per month plus between $2.30 for each hour of actual teaching, but if their universities offer additional private classes, teachers can earn more than $500 per month.

Read more:

• http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012010353742/National-news/for-many-its-a-matter-of-degrees.html
• http://www.vuthasurf.com/2010/12/buying-lessons-cakes-sweets-and-paying-money-to-teachers-are-corruption-in-education-sector/

Read my blogpost about university system in Cambodia:

http://livinginpp.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/cambodia-universities-are-teacher-centered-instead-of-student-oriented/