By: Heng Pheakdey

Education shares many similarities with businesses. It is a provider of services – knowledge, advice, assessment and guidance. Just like other service industries, education has its customer, which include students, student’s parents, future employers, government and society as a whole.
 
The education sector is transforming as a result of changes in the way people view schools. Expectations for better performance in terms of teaching and producing competent graduates are increasing. Continuously improving quality is the only way schools can keep up with the new standard.

By Heng Pheakdey

Until very recently, to get the job you want, all you need is to have the right hard skills  which refer to the technical skills necessary to perform your job. For instance, to be a journalist, you need to know how to write a good story; to be a teacher, you to know how to teach; to be an accountant, you need good math and know how to operate accounting software and so on.

BY HANG CHUON NARON AND ANNE LEMAISTRE

We know that literacy is the basis for lifelong learn­ing that contri­butes to poverty reduction, democratization, and sustainable development. Literacy is critical for improving quality of life by allowing literate citizens to seek alternative solutions for en­hancing health and nutrition, em­powering citizens to proactively participate in community development, and inspiring citizens to value gender equality for the attainment of overall family happiness.

“Literacy not only changes lives, it saves them,” said Unesco director-general Iri­na Bokova, aptly summing up the im­portance of literacy. This year, International Literacy Day is devoted to the connection between “Liter­a­cy and Sustainable Development.”

By: Heng Pheakdey

Thinking skill is often taken for granted because many of us tend to believe that we all can all think. But the question is how well can we think?  Fuzzy or flawed thinking can lead to ineffective decisions and result in undesirable consequences.
 
Critical thinking is defined as a disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence. Critical thinkers are able to differentiate between fact and fiction, evaluate the information presented to them, rather than jumping to conclusions or accepting things at face value.

By: Heng Pheakdey

In 1997 the ASEAN Leaders agreed to transform ASEAN into a stable, prosperous, and highly competitive region with equitable economic development, and reduced poverty and socio-economic disparities. Ten years later, at the 12th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, the leaders affirmed their strong commitment by signing the Cebu Declaration on the Acceleration of the Establishment of an ASEAN Community by 2015.  This community will enable free movement of goods, services, capital investment, and skilled labor within the region.