Cambodia. MOE to introduce population education in three subjects

Cambodia is currently undertaking reforms of its educational system both in structure and substance. Under these reforms, the Ministry of Education (MOE) is revising its curricula and textbooks in selective subjects. The government and UNFPA saw a timely opportunity to introduce population education concepts into three subjects, geography, home science, and moral education and civics from grades 7 to 12. To pave the way for this activity, the UNFPA and the government discussed the development of a pilot project that will concentrate first on the training of small numbers of professional educators and development of a first draft of curricula and textbooks including teacher's guides which could be tried out in this pilot stage and reproduced during the second phase. The project document has been prepared with the assistance of CST adviser on population education, Mr. Ansar Ali Khan, based in CST Bangkok, and is now under review.