Higher education plays a fundamental role in enhancing the intellectual capacity essential to\u00a0creative leadership in all fields of national activity and in providing a skilled workforce able to\u00a0respond to changing labour market demands. All citizens, and particularly the poor, need the\u00a0opportunity and the skills to participate productively in the labour market and other economic\u00a0activities.Improving the quality of higher education means providing the skills and capacities to think\u00a0logically and critically for a society\u2019s most talented citizens, including the disadvantaged,\u00a0so allowing them to participate in, make a major contribution to and lead growth. Countries\u00a0around the world now face challenges in establishing and sustaining governance to ensure\u00a0quality higher education for rapidly growing enrolments.\u00a0Cambodia is different in having to face these challenges without the assistance of a previous\u00a0generation of university graduates, who should by now have become competent and experienced\u00a0planners and managers, but who were dispersed and in many cases annihilated by a generationlong\u00a0internal conflict spurred by ideological competition between external powers.There is an acknowledgement by the institutions concerned of the underdeveloped governance\u00a0arrangements in Cambodia\u2019s higher education system, which negatively impact the quality\u00a0of higher education. This study aims to contribute to and inform existing efforts to improve\u00a0higher education governance by mapping the governance structure of Cambodia\u2019s current\u00a0system and identifying core issues. Interviews on these issues were conducted with high-level\u00a0policy makers in government ministries, departments and institutions, representatives from\u00a0development partners, scholars or researchers in this area, senior national and international\u00a0education consultants and the private sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Higher education plays a fundamental role in enhancing the intellectual capacity essential to\u00a0creative leadership in all fields of national activity and in providing a skilled workforce able to\u00a0respond to changing labour market demands. All citizens, and particularly the poor, need the\u00a0opportunity and the skills to participate productively in the labour market and other economic\u00a0activities.Improving the quality of higher education means providing the skills and capacities to think\u00a0logically and critically for a society\u2019s most talented citizens, including the disadvantaged,\u00a0so allowing them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33074","publications","type-publications","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n