Saturday, 31 October 2009

ETA Evaluates Cambodian Education as Basic


Written by DAP NEWS -- Saturday, 31 October 2009

(Posted by CAAI News Media)

The English Teacher Association (ETA) has visited to Cambodia and evaluated education in Cam-bodia as still poor, according to a press conference on Friday orga-nized by the Cambodian Indepen- dent Teacher Association (CITA).

ETA Director Lesley Ward stated that “In Cambodia, the education is still not similarly to urge to its process to be in international purpose, according by my visiting for a week ago.”

Lesley added that “if we want this sector to be in positive point, unless all students must involve to study in full right and similarly in educational terms.”

“I focused on salary to provide to all Cambodian teachers, so it was not good way to boost the educational sector in the country to be well, especially to concen trate on the poor teachers, so they find a second job to support their families,” she continued. “I support all I saw, whatever the CITA request to push the teac- hers to get high salary is good way, because all of them depend on their carries only it was not enough for the profit, it was a cause to lock the process of educational sector still poor.” “I hope that the beneficiaries for the all teachers will higher than and enough for supporting their families at the future,” she stressed. CITA can discus with the Cambodian Government to boost salaries, as this “is very important to achieve the goal for its strategies for Cambodian to reduce the poverty,” she said.

Phil Jacques, a facilitator of ETA, said that “After we visited for a week in Cambodia, I will report to the England government and other donors in the Europeans to help the CITA for the project of helping to the Cambodian teachers.”

CITA Director Rong Chhun said that “For many years, the situation of Cambodian teachers were poor, especially all of them face to need money to support the families, all of these to be at risk of the improving the educational sector for Cambodia.”

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