Education

DDD Celebrates 10 years of creating jobs

DDD Celebrates 10 years of creating jobs. (source: http://www.digitaldividedata.org)

When Jeremy Hockenstein came to Cambodia for the first time more than 10 years ago to see Angkor Wat, he expected to be inspred by the temples. But he had no idea that the people he met here would inspired him to develop on of the most successful NGOs in the country.

The corporate consultanturned-CEO of Digital Divide Data (DDD), a digital content NGO, remembers how many schools and charities he encounter on his trip that taught computer skills to locals—but also how nobody he spoke to expected that the training might help them one day land a job. [Read full article…]

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Peace Corps Celebrate Anniversary in Cambodia

May 25, 2011 Education

Fifty years of volunteer work abroad by members of the United States Peace Corps was celebrated in Cambodia last week by US Ambassador Carol Rodley. Former and current volunteers attended the 50th anniversary celebrations at the US Embassy in Phnom Penh. Eighty-one volunteers are now working across 14 provinces and cities in Cambodia. Volunteers began [...]

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A Chance To Join The Cambodia Peace Corps

February 6, 2011 Education

We Have Many Men So We Are Now Encouraging Women To Apply. We have build over 403 primary and secondary schools all over Cambodia funded by donors with matching funds from the World and Asian Development Banks. These are on land donated by villages and become state schools staffed by state teachers following the Ministry of [...]

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Cambodia Lacks Reading Culture, Experts Say

August 27, 2010 Education

Participants in a forum in Phnom Penh organized by the National Library of Cambodia and the Australian Embassy said yesterday that Cambodia lacks a culture of reading. “Cambodia society is a society whose people do not like reading very much, and we have some reasons for this problem,” said Pal Vannrirak, director of the development [...]

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More Students In Capital, Kandal Pass National Exam Than Last Year

August 23, 2010 Education

The Ministry of Education on Friday announce that 12th grade students in Phnom Penh and Kandal province had outperformed students from the previous year in their national exams. “This year, 81.9 percent of the students passed, which is higher than last year’s results, where 77.79 percent passed,” said Ou Eng, director general of the education [...]

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Student Finish Exams, Ponder Academic Futures

July 30, 2010 Education

More than 100,000 12th-grade high school students around the country finished their national exams yesterday, with many immediately considering their future. “I want to go to NUM [Nation University of Management] if I get high marks,” said Visal, 17, a student at Phnom Penh,s Chaktomuk Hight School, adding that the cost of tuition may force [...]

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