‘Can Rainsy even write Khmer?’ minister muses
Thu, 8 October 2015
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| Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron talks to the media earlier this year in Phnom Penh. Heng Chivoan |
Responding
to shots taken at Cambodia’s education system by opposition leader Sam
Rainsy, the Minister of Education yesterday questioned the long-term
expat’s Khmer literacy.
In
the video, Rainsy promised to make educational reform a high priority
if elected and slammed the value of degrees awarded in the Kingdom.
“Cambodian
degrees are given left and right, what use are they if they have no
quality? To stick on a wall?” he asked rhetorically, characterising the
education system as “very weak”.
Speaking
at an event at the Cambodia Institute of Technology yesterday, Minister
of Education Hang Chuon Naron responded to the remarks, citing
improvement over the past 15 years of relative stability, then launched a
personal attack on Rainsy, who has spent much of his life in France.
“The
attack is vain; he is a politician that only speaks but never acts,” he
said, adding that Rainsy’s foreign education means he does not value
the Kingdom’s.
“We
are not sure that he knows how to write Khmer very well,” Naron
continued before promising renewed attention to teacher training and
better salaries in 2016.
San
Chey, coordinator of ANSEA-EAP – a social accountability NGO – said
Rainsy’s criticism applies to higher education, which has seen “no
change”, but was unfair given high school exam and curricula reforms.
Chey
suggested that if Rainsy has a reform policy in mind, then “why not
work together with the Ministry of Education and do it”.
5 comments:
All CPP no one is no good, theu used all their system under controlled by yuon and act look like they are Khmer freedom, but they are all yuon's slave.
Assuming that Mr. Rainsy does not even write
Khmer, Mr. Rainsy however thinks, believes and acts Khmer.
Unlike the sold-out Khmers, Mr. Rainsy is a Khmer hero and willing to die for his Motherland.
Forget writing Khmer, can Hang Chuon Naron speak Khmer? Or, is today broken khmer was taught by him? Does he know the difference between a noun and a verb? Does he know the construct of a sentence? Does he know, does he know, does he know....
San chey is naive to say the least. How could any one with a education reforms in mind work with the monkeys from cpp. They will not let you lay a finger on their work you know why ? I tell you why . Because they are so scared out of their shit of any reform that when the truth comes out they have nothing to show to the public except that they are a bunch of corrupt assholes.
Who Cambodian leader can speak Vietnam?
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