Attendees at the digital education forum in Hunan, China. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Twenty officials from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport are undergoing a 10-day international level digitalisation workshop in Hunan, China. The training will allow them to assist with modernisation reforms in the Cambodian education sector.
In attendance are Dy Sam Sideth, deputy director-general for education at the ministry, Lin Junting, deputy director of Hunan province’s Department of Investment and Foreign Economic Cooperation, and Gui Cheng, vice-president of the Hunan Vocational College of Foreign Trade.
The ministry said the training course began on May 8 in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province. The attendees will acquire a broad understanding of current global trends in the digital development of education, and will learn to develop and implement digital education policies in Cambodia.
“The Cambodian and Chinese governments established diplomatic relations in 1958. This relationship has resulted in close cooperation between the Kingdom’s education ministry and China’s Ministry of Commerce. This had led to China providing this international standard training course on the digitalisation of education in Cambodia,” it added.
Ministry spokesman Ros Soveacha told The Post that in addition to Sam Sideth, several department chiefs and their deputies are attending the training course. He expected that what they were learning would make a positive contribution to the Kingdom’s socio-economic development.
“This course will lead to the increased development of digitalisation in education and lay the foundation for future exchanges and cooperation between China and Cambodia in the digital education sector. In addition, the training contributes to enhancing the qualifications of educators to improve the use of technology to produce positive learning outcomes for students,” he said.
He added that the course was conducted under the umbrella of the Information Technology Development Project for Education funded by the China International Development Agency. Hunan province has so far conducted 663 training courses in person and 176 online courses. Nearly 25,000 foreign officials from 141 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, the Oceania continent and Latin America have undergone training in Hunan.
