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Back to basics: Less is more!

Every year, VVOB Cambodia offers 6 to 8 internship opportunities to Flemish students to teach mathematics and science to Cambodian pupils. They are teamed up with Cambodian student teachers who help translate their lessons from English into Khmer for the pupils. As a team they prepare their...

31/10/2016

Tackling teachers' beliefs: Science experiments can be done in big classes

Although the number slowly decreases, the teacher-pupil ratio in Cambodia is still very high. One teacher to 45 pupils is even compared to neighbouring countries a high number. Knowing that this is just an average ratio, the reality is that classrooms with 50 or more pupils are quite common....

28/09/2016

External evaluation for VVOB Cambodia

Goal of the external evaluation

The end of the VVOB programme 2014-2016 is in sight and that means that we need to take some time to reflect on the past three years. To do this the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation (DGD), who is the main financier...

03/05/2016

Teaching in Cambodia: A once in a lifetime experience

January 19th, the beginning of an extraordinary experience!

For four months, from January 19th until May 20th 2016, we discovered Cambodian education and experienced the country in all its aspects.
The first two months we lived in Kampong Cham. The VVOB staff helped us to find a...

15/12/2015

One little message of hope and peace for 2016

30/10/2015

Locked cupboards with dusty equipment not allowed

Workshop science materials
The 9 science teacher trainers of the Teacher Training Centres (TTC) of Kratie, Stung Treng and Preah Vihear practiced using science experiment materials during an interactive workshop on 27 and 28 October 2015 in Preah Vihear. This workshop was...

28/10/2015

Steffie about her internship in Cambodia

Steffie Haentjens, a former intern at VVOB Cambodia, talks about her three months' life in Cambodia. From the work she has done for VVOB to the way she has fallen in love with the country.

How long have you been working for VVOB Cambodia?
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30/09/2015

Predicting the future is not easy: Theory of Change helps us grasp complex evolutions

Project development involves a lot of imagination to foresee the future. That imagination includes how resources are going to be utilized effectively in creating the project’s outputs and how each output will produce the outcomes or the goals at the end. Many scholars believe that it is...

28/09/2015

Your wish is my command: Expert teacher trainers' support to Teacher Training Centres Kratie and Preah Vihear

On request by the science teacher trainers of Provincial Teacher Training Centre (PTTC) Kratie and mathematics teacher trainers at PTTC Preah Vihear, two support visits took place in August 2015. The teacher trainers requested support on specific topics in their lessons they find...

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