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Free-Market Economy and Free-Market University

Cambodia was steered into "free-market economy" after the

radical agreement, done in Paris on October 23, 1991. And this

"humanitarian trend" is, of course, prevalently accepted by

Cambodians. Resulting from this, Cambodia's integration into

regional and international communities has boosted her economy.

Education is now of one of the most or probably the most

pressing agenda of Cambodian people and government. I, myself

and most of the Cambodian people, poor and rich, educated,

low-educated and illiterate, are showing negative point of views

toward Cambodia's mushrooming universities.

I have seen that nearly all of the universities are not playing

as the "human resource developers"; it seems like commercial

competition; "profit-oriented." Can university play the role of

"profit-oriented legal entity?" It would be too dangerous for

the university to turn itself into the profit-oriented entity,

since the whole nation would suffer in the future. In this short

article, I don't want to enlarge my content by depicting and

analyzing those existing or impending drawbacks that those

universities with the profit-oriented vision will bring.

Many apparent problems have been seen and complaints by the

students have been ubiquitously heard; unemployment rates,

non-quality education, no clear-cut academic curriculums. So who

or what are creating these problems. Universities that are

playing profit-oriented role are dramatically contributing to

the aforesaid problems. Apparently, we see that nearly all

sectors; economic, political, social have been analyzed by the

international individuals or institutions. And why is that?

Universities are not producing confident human resources to

replace those of the foreigners.

I see that there are two ways that unemployment is increasing in

Cambodia; 1. Genuinely educated peoples are not provided with

opportunities to express their abilities and 2. Though the

vacancy is available, we don't have the qualified persons to

fill.

I don't have analytical resolution to such the havoc, since I

want to keep this article short and simple. But I just want to

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command one point: improving the quality of the universities is

the very first and foremost step of all other betterments and we

will see how it will continuously be proceeding. According to

Article 6 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and

Cultural Rights (ICESCR), everyone is entitled to a right to

work and earn a living, not only the ICESCR, Cambodian

constitution and other international instruments that Cambodia

have entered, do guarantee the equally and self-fulfillment of

employment, but quality and opportunity is the problem in

Cambodian, such the aspiration of the this international

instrument is extremely hard to achieve.

"Quality is everything, but that everything is instigated from

the willingness, and government, is of course, that willingness

trigger" (Coined by Lay Vicheka, 2005).

About the author:

Final year student of law. Translator and interpretor for

Pyramid. Co.ltd