Matching Aspirations : Skills for Implementing Cambodia's Growth Strategy

Over the past decade, Cambodia improved the skills of its workforce at a slower rate than other countries in East Asia. And, although Cambodia's firms do not perceive skills as their main business constraint, skills shortages may negatively affect the process of both industrial and agricultural upgrading and economic diversification. Employers point to a structural imbalance in skills supply, including a relative shortage of vocational training graduates compared to university graduates. This report provides valuable insight for Cambodia to develop the skills necessary to match the country's development aspiration. At the same time, it outlines specific actions to create opportunities for access to information in the skills market, to expand household-oriented interventions, to improve school retention, and to strengthen second-chance options - including technical and vocational education and training. This report further proposes how to expand financing for early childhood development effectively, to strengthen institutions, and to promote incentives toward better results among skills providers, including higher education institutions. The analysis in this report represents an important collaborative contribution to Cambodia's growth strategy and human development agenda.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Policy Note biblioteca
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Phnom Penh 2012-03
Subjects:	academic year, access to information, accreditation, adults, advanced training, basic education, basic learning, basic literacy, basic skills, Biology, career, career choices, career counseling, career opportunities, careers, certification system, children in schools, civil service, classroom, cognitive development, completion rates, computer literacy, counseling, counselors, creative thinking, curricula, curriculum, Decentralization, disciplines, Early Child Development, early childhood, early childhood development, early years of life, educated workers, education enrollments, education expenditure, education for all, education level, Education Management, education providers, Education Sector, education services, education spending, education system, emotional development, employment opportunities, employment outcomes, enrollment rate, enrollment rates, equitable access, female students, fields of study, foreign languages, formal training, graduate students, Graduate unemployment, graduation rates, Gross enrollment rates, hard sciences, high school, higher education, higher education enrollments, Higher education financing, higher education institutions, higher education supply, higher education system, higher productivity, household surveys, human capital, human capital investment, human development, human resource development, human resources, income generation, Information access, Information Technology, institutions of higher education, instruction, internships, interventions, job market, job opportunities, job seekers, labor force, labor market information systems, labor markets, leadership, learners, learning, learning achievements, learning outcomes, level of education, life skills, lifelong learning, literacy, literature, low literacy rate, Mathematics, mental development, Ministry of Education, mobility, net enrollment, new entrants, non-formal training, nonformal training, Number of students, numeracy, nutrition, occupational skills, occupations, Papers, performance indicators, Physics, post-secondary education, primary completion, primary completion rate, Primary education, primary enrollment, primary gross enrollment, primary level, Primary Lower secondary, Primary net enrollment rate, Primary pupil, primary school, primary school attendance, primary students, printing, private expenditure, private institutions, private partnerships, problem solving, Professional Schools, public institutions, pupil-teacher ratio, pupil-teacher ratios, quality assurance, quality of education, quality teaching, radio, reform of education, repetition, role playing, rural areas, scholarship program, scholarships, school attendance, school curriculum, school level, school retention, school system, school teachers, schooling, schools, Secondary education, secondary school, secondary school teachers, secondary schools, secondary students, skilled labor, skilled labor force, skilled workers, skilled workforce, skills development, skills for employment, Social science, Social sciences, Sports, student assessment, Teacher, teacher training, Teachers, teaching, teaching methods, technical assistance, technical skills, Technical Training, tertiary education, tertiary enrollment, tertiary graduates, tertiary institutions, tertiary level, trainees, training centers, training centres, training costs, training funds, training institutions, training needs, training opportunities, training programs, training services, universal access, universities, university education, university graduates, Veterinary Medicine, vocational education, vocational skills, Vocational Training, vocational training centres, Work experience, young people, Youth,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13808
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