Cambodia will trial full-time teaching in 200 public primary and secondary schools across the country

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manai said on November 3, local time, that Cambodia plans to trial full-time teaching in 200 qualified public primary and secondary schools, extend the daily teaching time from 4 hours to 6 hours, and promote it nationwide in stages to comprehensively improve the quality of basic education in the country.

When attending the opening ceremony of the new school building in Kampong Thom Province that day, Hong Manai said that currently about 200 public primary and secondary schools in Cambodia have the conditions to implement the "4 hours + 2 hours" teaching arrangement. The government will use these schools as pilots to gradually expand the scope of implementation and implement the goal of 6 hours of in-school learning per day for 12-year basic education from primary school to high school.

He said that the aforementioned teaching model does not require huge expenditures and a large number of modern equipment. It only needs to make full use of existing resources and appropriately extend the teaching time to allow students to learn normally. This move will not only help improve the quality of education and cultivate talents, but also effectively reduce the negative behaviors of teenagers such as racing on the streets in their spare time, reducing the burden on families and society.

According to reports, there are about 10,000 public primary and secondary schools in Cambodia. Hong Manai said that the government is temporarily unable to fully implement the full-time teaching model at one time. The top priority at this stage is to improve infrastructure, ensure the supply of teachers, and improve teaching quality. The long-term vision is to gradually expand the scale of the pilot and eventually achieve nationwide popularization.