Ta Yaek learning Center

The CTEP Education Program has a stated goal of improving Cambodia’s education system. We’ve been teaching foreign languages and eradicating digital illiteracy to children and young people in rural regions, where English and digital illiteracy are top priorities and essential for pursuing further education and finding good job opportunities in the industrial era and globalization. Since 2010, CTEP has opened 35 learning centers in several provinces, including Battambang, Siem Reap, Kampong Thom, Svay Rieng, Kampong Chhnang, Banteay Meanchey, and Phnom Penh, in partnership with partner organizations, pagodas, Catholic churches, commune halls, and public schools.

Rice soup program was the first initiative, which began in a public school in 2010. The kids in that area can have their breakfast before starting class. Later on, urban computer classes also started to serve the youth in the first center, the Cambodia Taiwan Education Center (CTEC). We then promoted them to language programs in Chinese and English. When CTEC became the Seed Teacher Training (STT) center, rural learning centers for children were developed. We choose teachers from the communities in which the learning centers are located. We make such selection because we want to give local residents with work options so that they may continue to serve their community for a long time. Each of the three-month training sessions concentrated on computer literacy and language. When the teachers returned to the village, they began teaching basic English and computer lessons.

(By the end of 2016, 35 rural learning centers had been created)

Our Education Program has been improved to work with general and technical high schools, including computer lessons that are aligned with the public school curriculum. The Co-Managed Learning Center is the name of this co-managed program (CLC). CTEP provides funding for the school’s computer and accessory requirements, as well as certain teacher allowances.

(By the end of 2020, ten CLCs have collaborated)

Our program was halted in early 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The school closed and reopened multiple times, causing the students’ learning quality. The program has been modified for use in E-learning classes by CTEP.

Objectives of the Education Program

Narrow Digital Gap: Practical computer skills are taught to narrow the digital gap among children, with computers from Taiwan, the world’s leader in computer manufacturing.

To Eliminate Foreign-Language Illiteracy: Various courses in English, as a global lingua franca, are offered to develop second-language literacy and to expand access to higher education.

There are two types of learning centers at CTEP:

1). Self-Managed Learning Center (MLC)

Many Cambodian schools divide their student learning session into two groups, each of which attends for half a day. MLC offers after- formal education in the form of afternoon classes for students in public schools’ morning session and formal morning students in public schools enroll in our afternoon classes. There are also evening sessions available to all students.

CTEP creates and develops learning courses, hires and teaches instructors, enrolls and monitors students, evaluates performance, and assesses educational needs in an MLC.

MLC can only be set up and operated within a three-hour drive of the CTEP Center in Siem Reap because to CTEP’s limited staff and financial resources. As a result, CTEP collaborates with public schools and other non-governmental organizations to establish and co-manage learning centers in public schools and/or non-governmental organizations’ classrooms.

2) Co-Managed Learning Center (CLC)

Teachers are assigned and students are enrolled in CLCs by public schools and non-profit organizations. CTEP offers computers, textbooks, and teaching allowance. CTEP visits CLC on a regular basis to ensure that lessons run well and to discuss with instructors about any issues that need to be addressed. CTEP also organizes CLC teachers and administrators’ tours to visit Taiwan, as well as co-organizing Taiwan counterparts’ visits to Cambodia.

CTEP presently manages 20 learning centers, ten of which are MLCs and ten of which are CLCs. All learning centers teach computer skills and/or English. On the following pages, you can find profiles of CTEP Learning Centers.