Special Education Cambodia

Public and private educational institutions throughout the country that meet conditions related to hygiene, environment and health measures and can implement the standard operating procedures (SOP) will reopen from September 15. In Pursat province, governor Mao Thonin said secondary and high schools in seven districts will reopen. “Before making the decision, we had already checked on the actual situation in those areas,” he said. Ly Sokunthy, director of the provincial education department, said a total of 54 secondary and high schools will resume on September 15, while another six high schools are still undergoing evaluation for reopening. In Phnom Penh, governor Khuong Sreng said both public and private schools from grade 7-12 will reopen after missing more than seven months due to the pandemic. If this reopening goes smoothly, the municipal administration will permit kindergartens and primary schools to follow. In Kandal province, authorities also allowed the reopening of p...

World Health Organisation (WHO) representative to Cambodia Li Ailan said school reopening process should be used as a role model for reopening other sectors currently mothballed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Li strongly supports the government’s decision to reopen schools, saying it is a decision backed by UN agencies and other international experts. Speaking to reporters while visiting centenarians who volunteered for vaccinations in Kampong Thom province on September 6, Li said many people, including students, parents, teachers, and even the WHO and other UN bodies like UNICEF and UNESCO, had been hoping that schools would reopen as soon as possible. She said the current evidence shows that students and schools themselves are not major drivers of Covid-19 transmissions and keeping them shut any longer could cause students real harm. “If you look at Cambodia, transmissions mainly occurred in ... settings like casinos, factories, prisons,markets and other crowded places. “We did no...

World Health Organisation (WHO) representative to Cambodia Li Ailan said school reopening process should be used as a role model for reopening other sectors currently mothballed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Li strongly supports the government’s decision to reopen schools, saying it is a decision backed by UN agencies and other international experts. Speaking to reporters while visiting centenarians who volunteered for vaccinations in Kampong Thom province on September 6, Li said many people, including students, parents, teachers, and even the WHO and other UN bodies like UNICEF and UNESCO, had been hoping that schools would reopen as soon as possible. She said the current evidence shows that students and schools themselves are not major drivers of Covid-19 transmissions and keeping them shut any longer could cause students real harm. “If you look at Cambodia, transmissions mainly occurred in ... settings like casinos, factories, prisons,markets and other crowded places. “We did no...