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Friday, July 30, 2010

Cambodia Wraps Up National Exam for High School’s Students

Cambodia,Phnom Penh,28-July-2010,Cambodia on Wednesday concluded the two and a half day national exam for high school’s students with some irregularities in exam classes and bad behaviors for exams.

In overall, the national exam this year had some irregularities of cheating or students has answers sheet in exam classes and some controllers and juries in classes took money from students, Rong Chun, head of independent teachers ‘association said by phone.

Senior officials at education ministry rejected that accusation with asking that the association should cooperate with ministry to reveal the names of teachers, and juries who provided the answer sheets and took the money from students.

In Phnom Penh, it did not have a matter like that because we checked all students without any answer sheets into exam classes even their pockets do not allow to keep any answer copies, Chea Chet, head of Phnom Penh education office said, adding that we want our students to have quality and quantity to help develop human resources in the country.

But some students asked not to be named that they paid some money for their juries in classes to allow them to copy answer from sheet that they got from outside the classes.

This year, the national exam included 108,000 students with 191 exam centers across the country.

In Cambodia, students who got A plus and B plus for all subjects, generally, can enter university directly but some subjects with those degrees need to sit for scholarship for entering universities or need to pay money for studying at the universities. For bachelor degree, a student needs to pay about 500 US dollar per year for their degree and need to sit for four years.

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