Social Issues In Cambodia

Cambodia locates in South East Asian with three neighboring countries such as Gulf of Thailand on the west, Thailand and Laos at North and in east and south is Vietnam. Its land area covers 181,035 square kilometers with totally population is 13,395,682 persons (NIS, 2008). Over the past three decades, Cambodia had undergone the civil war. The infrastructures in the country deteriorated severely, especially human resources. For the five years led by Pol Pot in 1975, at least 1.7 million people were died (Tan, 2007) and 75 percent of teachers and education population were killed and fled the country (Chhinh, 2003). Although, the conflict already finished, Cambodia society remains numerous social and economic issues such as the lack of infrastructure, poor healthcare center service, lack of human resources and poor of education infrastructure and service (Ty, 2009). As a result, the Liberation day on January 7, 1979 provided the new hope for Cambodia to rebuild the country, especially in human resources development (Va, 2008). The Government

They are full of budget, teaching quality, material and professional, which have been showing the inefficiency of public school. Therefore, many rich and medium status families have been sending their children to private school because they do not trust on the public education service. By the way, the poor and declining quality of public school has al so led to growing the numbers of parents sending their children to private school. In addition, teachers have got low salary. They cannot earn and make enough money to support their families living expenses, they indeed hopeless to pursue long-life learning or improving existing knowledge. Most of teachers are demotivated to do their jobs while they think that teaching students just for completing hours that required by each school as well as