An opinion piece in the Khmer Times captures the general discourse on Cambodia’s low quality education (especially technical education) as the main reason impeding successful integration in the Asean Economic Community:

It is late, but not too late, for Cambodia to pay increased attention and priority to education, courses, training, vocational schools and universities. In this process, it must pay attention to competency standards, at least to Asean levels. This way all educational curricula in Asean would meet standards and be recognized at the international level.