Education

Education • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 25, 2020 • 11 min read
In Partnership with 1

Female-led councils and equity classes as Siem Reap schools target gender gap

By Alexi Demetriadi • Sep 25, 2020
While Cambodia continues to make strides with its education system, a gender attainment gap between girls and boys persists. But with its female-led student councils and gender equity programme, one set of schools in Siem Reap is bridging the divide

Education • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 10, 2020 • 8 min read

Covid-19 Far from home: Foreign students reflect on Singapore during the pandemic

By Zibang Xiao • Jun 10, 2020
Thousands of foreign students choose to study in Singapore for its high-quality universities. Staying in the city-state during the pandemic, unable to leave, they offer their reflections on what recent months have taught them about life and governance in the Republic

Education • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 08, 2020 • 7 min read
In Partnership with 1

Will COVID-19 shine a light on the importance of early childhood care and education in Southeast Asia?

By Christine Redmond • Jun 08, 2020
The socio and economic fallout of the current health crisis is already threatening to undo the gains made to address poverty, hunger, education, good health and well-being in recent years. While the pandemic disrupts almost every facet of life around the globe, Aide et Action poses the question if this disruption could in fact propel early childhood education rather than set it back

Education • Mar 31, 2020 • 9 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

Evicted from Harvard, returning to Singapore

Singaporean Yong Han Poh has called Harvard University home for the past four years. But when the global pandemic hit, it all came to an abrupt end, with her forced to pack her life up and leave for good virtually overnight
By Yong Han Poh • Mar 31, 2020

Education • Mar 25, 2020 • 11 min read
Southeast Asian languages

The power of script

With the rise of the internet age, Southeast Asia is fast embracing change. But within a digital world initially designed for Latin scripts and fonts, the region is still playing catch up to ensure its citizens have equal access to every online feature
By Zachary Frye • Mar 25, 2020

Education • Mar 13, 2020 • 7 min read
Education in Cambodia

The Kep woman using education to inspire change in Cambodia

In Cambodia's Kep province, Phou Mom has shaken up the education system in recent decades. Her efforts inspired generations of the Kingdom's female students, including Vannet Neak, today a school director who is trailblasing a path of her own
By Christine Redmond • Mar 13, 2020

Education • Jan 15, 2020 • 13 min read
Cambodia in 2040

Making the grade

For the seventh installment of our eight-week series with Future Forum looking at the Kingdom in 2040, we examine the future of learning in Cambodia. With the need for high-quality schooling only going to rise in the coming decades, will the Kingdom’s education system make the grade?
By Gerald Flynn • Jan 15, 2020

Education • Dec 04, 2019 • 6 min read
Cambodia looking forward

Into the future

In 20 years time, Cambodia will be as unrecognisable to us as our present would have been to our parents. Over the next eight weeks, Southeast Asia Globe, in partnership with Future Forum, will be speaking to some of the Kingdom’s brightest minds about the future they envision for the next generation.
By Paul Millar • Dec 04, 2019

Education • Nov 15, 2019 • 9 min read
Social movements

Homegrown heroes

Cambodia has long looked to international donors to fund its social development. We speak to three local Cambodians fighting to promote education and environmental awareness among the Kingdom's young generation on their own terms
By Thim Rachna • Nov 15, 2019

Education • Nov 13, 2019 • 8 min read
Child protection

Lost in translation

A wave of casino-driven Chinese tourism to Cambodia is creating new challenges for the community networks that child protection groups have spent years setting up
By Andrew Haffner • Nov 13, 2019

Education • Aug 15, 2019 • 13 min read
West Papua

Whose history?

Fifty years after the western part of New Guinea was incorporated into Indonesia, this event has become a battleground for competing versions of history. As the region’s next generation grows up surrounded by conflict, their struggle to speak their truth continues
By Evie Breese • Aug 15, 2019