Education in Cambodia

1.  After the devastation of the Khmer Rouge period, the PRK tried to rebuild a national education system:

1. with generous funding from international donors.
2. With almost total lack of resources both human and material
3. With an emphasis on quantity over quality
4. Using exclusively Vietnamese teachers
5. B and C above.

2.  What percentage of the Cambodian population is basically illiterate (either completely illiterate or semi-literate)? (year 2000 statistics)

1. 5 %
2. 18 %
3. 26 %
4. 43 %
5. 62 %

3.  What changes in the 1990s have been important for the improvement of Cambodian education? 

1. increased government spending, rebuilding of schools, reprinting of textbooks.
2. Increases in salaries for teachers
3. The opening of high quality private universities
4. A shift of funding responsibilities from parents to the government
5. All of the above.

4.  The education of girls lags far behind that of boys in Cambodia, while they are nearly half (46.2 %) of primary school students, in lower secondary school this drops to:

1. 40 %
2. 37 %
3. 22 %
4. 10 %

5.  The reason parents give for why girls are kept at home is:

1. girls are needed for household chores.
2. It is not safe for girls to travel the longer distances to school
3. School is too expensive
4. All of the above.