FAQ · Education 10

The United Nations in Cambodia reported on 29 April 2025 that the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, the Korea International Cooperation Agency, and the World Food Programme launched a 10 million US dollar initiative running from 2025 to 2029. The note says the national homegrown school-feeding programme then reached 190,000 children in 686 schools. The new support is described as hot nutritious meals for 133,300 pre-primary and primary pupils in 428 schools, to be handed to the national programme in phases, with full government ownership expected by 2028. Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron thanked the Republic of Korea, the Korean agency, and the World Food Programme. The note says the government approved a School Feeding Policy in August 2024 linking meals to education, nutrition, agriculture, and social protection. World Food Programme representative Claire Conan said the partnership is meant to improve children's well-being and learning.

A UNESCO note dated 7 September 2026 says the agency has supported the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport since 2016 on a workplace literacy scheme for garment, footwear, and travel-goods factories. It says the Factory Literacy Programme has reached more than 4,800 garment workers, over 92 percent of them women, including help with reading a work contract and safety instructions. The same note says Cambodia launched a National Policy on Lifelong Learning in 2019 with UNESCO technical support, and that UNESCO then helped the ministry strengthen non-formal education. It describes the Basic Education Equivalency Programme, run with the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, as flexible online study for out-of-school youth to finish basic education at a level equivalent to grade 9. Learners who finish receive a certificate accredited by both ministries and can enter formal technical and vocational training. The factory classes, run with the industry association TAFTAC, teach functional literacy, numeracy, and work communication.

The Phnom Penh Post reported on 17 October 2021 that Governor Khuong Sreng withdrew an earlier rule requiring students under 18 to show a COVID-19 vaccination card when entering school. The directive said children under 18 need not show the card at state or private educational institutions, or at campus libraries, bookshops, cafeterias, and drink shops. Parents, guardians, and caretakers were still required to show their own vaccination cards on entry or exit. The governor said other precautions remained, including masks, temperature checks, distance, and scanning the Stop Covid QR code. The article presents this as a change to the October 2021 reopening rules in Phnom Penh, not as a general immunization schedule for school admission.

Northbridge International School Cambodia publishes its 2026-27 fees in US dollars and says they can be paid yearly, by semester, or in four quarterly instalments. Yearly tuition is 11,550 US dollars for Early Learning 2 to 4, 21,815 for kindergarten through grade 1, 22,795 for grades 2 to 5, 27,975 for grades 6 to 8, 28,295 for grades 9 to 10, and 30,475 for grades 11 to 12. A capital fee billed every year is 1,440 US dollars in Early Learning and 2,840 US dollars from kindergarten through grade 12. New students also pay a one-time non-refundable application fee of 290 US dollars, a registration fee of 850 US dollars in Early Learning or 2,990 US dollars from kindergarten, and a refundable deposit of 1,000 US dollars returned when the child leaves within the agreed notice period. The school adds a transition fee of 1,500 US dollars when a pupil moves from Early Learning 4 into kindergarten. These figures are that one school's published schedule, not a national fee table.

The Better Cambodia reported that Prime Minister Hun Manet officially marked the opening of the 2026-2027 academic year on 1 November 2026. In a congratulatory message he thanked teachers and students nationwide and called the start of the school year an important milestone, especially for children entering school for the first time and for students moving up a grade. He said the government treats people as its most valuable resource and centres human capital on knowledge, skills, morality, discipline, and health. He asked schools to run as efficient and accountable public service institutions and singled out child nutrition programmes and inspections of food served in schools. He named five standards for every school: student learning outcomes, teaching and learning, community participation, school operations and administration, and school accountability. He cited the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics for 2024 and the Programme for International Student Assessment for 2025 as signs of progress, and the article attributes the account to the national news agency AKP.

Feather, which describes itself as a private insurer and not a government agency, says on its Cambodia page that student visas do not come with a health-insurance requirement. The same page says no Cambodian visa requires health insurance and lists tourist, work, retirement, and student visas as examples. It says the public scheme, the National Social Security Fund, covers only foreigners who are formally employed in Cambodia and hold a valid work visa and work permit, and that students, retirees, job seekers, and tourists are not eligible. It adds that public healthcare will not cover a foreigner unless that person is employed locally with a work permit and enrolled in the national scheme. Feather also says most reputable international universities ask for proof of private coverage before a student can enroll. The page presents these points as the insurer's own guide for foreigners.

Khmer Times reported on 19 August 2026 that the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport opened applications for 90 low-income female freshmen seeking temporary accommodation at the Female Student Dormitory Centre in Phnom Penh for the 2026-2027 academic year. Eligible applicants must be first-year students at public higher education institutions in the capital, whether on scholarships or paying fees, and must be low-income or have a disability. They need a confirmation letter from the commune chief, must remain unmarried, and must show good discipline and conduct. Applications are submitted in person through each student's own institution by 10 October, and results are to be posted on 28 October at the centre and on the ministry website after the selection committee approves them. The centre sits next to the Institute of Technology of Cambodia. The same report says a separate four-storey dormitory in Chroy Changvar was more than 70 percent complete and is designed to house 504 female students in 126 rooms on a two-hectare site.

The Phnom Penh Post reported on 20 March 2026 that 11 graduates completed Cambodia's first Korean Language Teacher Training Programme at the Royal University of Phnom Penh on 19 March. The South Korean embassy said those teachers are expected to start in public schools in September of the 2026-2027 academic year, shifting classes from informal after-school instruction toward a state-supported model. Korean had been piloted since 2021 at three high schools, and the embassy said about 2,000 students at 17 high schools were studying it this year. The six-month course ran from September 2025 to March 2026 and gave 105 hours across 11 subjects covering Korean linguistics, teaching methods, and classroom practice. Participants had to have majored in Korean or reached at least Level 4 on the Test of Proficiency in Korean. Ambassador Kim Chang-yong said work would continue so that Korean is firmly established as a second foreign language, and the paper notes Korean support for Cambodia-specific textbooks with Khmer translations since 2024.

Be Like Khmer, a language school and not a national fee schedule, lists Phnom Penh group prices on its classes page. A Fast Thrive course there is 310 US dollars a month for two hours a day, Monday to Friday, and the page says that course is complete in two months. A full-time group class is 170 US dollars a month for one hour a day over three months, while a Khmer Survival course is 290 US dollars a month for two hours a day and is described as complete in four weeks. Part-time group rates in Phnom Penh are 136 US dollars a month for four days a week over four months, 114 US dollars for three days a week over five months, and 84 US dollars for two days a week over eight months. Private one-to-one lessons are listed at 12 to 14 US dollars an hour in Phnom Penh and 10 to 12 US dollars an hour in Siem Reap. The school says its curriculum has nine levels, with morning classes from 8 AM to 12 PM and afternoon classes from 2 PM to 6 PM.

The Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center library, at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Tuol Kork, says students and the public can become members by bringing documents and filling in a form at the counter, and that the card is issued a week after registration. The required papers are a copy of a student card, a citizenship identity card, or a passport, plus a recent photo measuring 4 cm by 6 cm taken within six months, and the library also takes membership photos on site. A card lasts one year. The published yearly fee is 16 US dollars for a foreign adult, 5 US dollars for a Cambodian who is not a student, 3 US dollars for a Cambodian student from another university, 2 US dollars for a student of the Royal University of Phnom Penh or the center, 2 US dollars and 50 cents for a Cambodian under 18, and 8 US dollars for a foreigner under 18. Center students and participants may use the library without a card only a limited number of times and must then apply, and a lost card is replaced for 2 US dollars after the librarian is told. The library is open Monday to Friday from 7 AM to 5 PM and on Saturday and Sunday from 8 AM to 4 PM, and it is closed every other Wednesday.