A Year in Phnom Penh

By nellbj

Bold claims

A typical claim for yet another ' international school' in Phnom Penh. Education is clearly a valuable commodity and in a country whose education system is still trying to get back on its feet after it was ravaged by civil war and genocide targeting educated adults, it has also become a business opportunity, especially within the rapidly growing wealthy/middle class.

Education as a business does not have to exclude quality, but with no regulation, and a generation of parents whose approach to choosing schools is unlikely to consider (or even know/ understand) the quality of learning, schools often miss the mark.

The question I have running a school here, is not what makes a school quality, but how do we convince parents of the true value of education when apparently they can become a genius just because it says so on the box.

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