Author: Hang Chansophea
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-06-08
Year: 2006
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2006
Examination Committee: Mokbul Morshed Ahmad (Chairperson); Jayant Kumar Routray, Kyoko Kusakabe (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Generally, rural people in Cambodia have low education and they are the vulnerable groups in educational services. The enrollment rate is still low in the schools because of high dropout. The major factors lie behind such low enrollments, repetition and high dropout rates are the lacks of educational facilities and support, qualified teachers, household awareness on the value of education and affordability of parents to send and keep their children at schools. Furthermore, household workloads make children repetitive and eventually drop out afterwards. In the development aspect, the Government and Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) are playing very essential roles in sharing responsibilities to sustain the educational development by improving its quality and entitlement to all the children especially in the rural areas to complete at least compulsory primary education in line with the government policy. This research investigated the comparison of functional roles between the state-run schools and NGOs-run schools in providing primary education services for rural children in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. The main objective of the research is to focus on the functional roles of the Government-NGOs in term of participation for developing educational implementation in Cambodia under the National Policy for educational sector adopted by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS). This research was conducted in Kok Chak Commune of Siem Reap Province by using survey questionnaires with the total number of 62 parents, 122 school children, and 35 drop-outs. Teachers were also randomly selected for interviews about the existing educational situation. The data was analyzed by both quantitative and qualitative techniques after the data collection. The main findings of this research indicated that low educated primary to their children and poverty-stricken households in the rural areas of Cambodia could not finance the children to complete at least primary education. As a result, they asked the children to l
Scholarship Donor(s): Government of Sweden (Sida) AIT Fellowship
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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