1. Ministry of Education Youth and Sport
Education Research Council

2. Content Education Research Council ERC Strategic plan 2018-2022
Cambodia Education Review
Key activities
International Collaboration
Challenges in human resource management

3. Education Research Council (ERC)
Founded in 2014 by a dozen of Cambodian scholars known as “Think Tank team”
It aims at providing evidence-base and policy recommendations for education reform in Cambodia.
Our main activities are:
Research on education-related issues
Cambodia Education Review (CER)
Education seminar and research forum
ERC was institutionalized in July 2017 by Prakas of the MoEYS teaming top leaders, senior government officials of MoEYS and researchers from universities and schools

4. 3 Tiers of ERC Members: 26 including senior researchers1
Members: 26 including senior researchers 2
Secretariat team: 10 3
Research associates: 13

5. 1. ERC members
Policy makers include the Minister and a Secretary of State
Diverse backgrounds: education, social science, political science, economist, historian…
PhD and Master holders
Years of experience in research and development

6. 2. ERC secretariat Head of Secretariat Deputy Heads (2 )
Unit of Administration, Planning, and Finance
Unit of Research and Publication
Unit of relation and international collaboration
Deputy Heads (2 )

7. 3. ERC junior researchers
Assist principal and senior researchers
Translate research papers and policy documents: Khmer  English
Organize research forums
Review research papers for ERC Journal
Draft policy briefs
Join the fieldwork research and design

8. ERC Strategic plan
VISION: An internationally recognized center of excellence in educational
research
Core values: ERC
Excellence
Reliability
Creativity

9. ERC Strategic plan 2018-2022- Strategies

10. Cambodia Education Review (CER)
It is a bi-lingual Journal
Expected to have two issues per year
Publish:
Original Papers
Book Reviews
Policy Briefs
CER will be also available online:
Ministerial regulation (Prakas) approved the publication of CER and Policy Brief.

12. 1 2 3 4 5 Call for Paper Peer Review Revision Fin Decision
Dec-Jan
Jun-Jul
Feb
Aug
Mar-Apr
Sept-Oct
Apr-May
Oct-Nov
May-Jun
Nov-Dec
Call for Paper
Peer Review
Revision
Fin Decision
Copy Editing
- 5 Original Paper
- 1 Book Review
- Internal screen
- External review
- Editor review
- No change
- Minor change
- Major change
- Editors
- Ass Editors
- External reviewer
- Techniques
- Language
- Proof reading
- Editors
- Ass Editors
- External reviewer
- Online version
- Print version
- Distribution
Deadline
Feb & Aug
Decision making
Publication

13. Others activities Research Forums Publication of research handbooks
Presentation of our research in international conferences
Joint research with our partners
Policy formulation (for ex: Teacher Career Pathways Framework)

14. Fund
Government budget
ADB
CDPF

15. International Collaboration: Way forwards
SEMEO INNOTECH
KEDI
NEIS
Local and International Universities and Research institutes

16. Challenges in human resource management
Remuneration is low and is not stable. It is hard to attract professional researchers into ERC.
Only 5-6 ERC members are active given their double roles in executive departments, universities or their affiliated organizations.
Our working approach is to give researchers and juniors researchers the independence (be their own boss). This approach does not work well given our researchers/juniors are stick with employee mind set or they are not able to conduct research independently.
ERC Secretariat: Government officials- More functions, more tensions
No financial autonomy- our budget is kept with the Department of Finance, MoEYS

17. Contact
BO Chankoulika, Deputy Head of ERC Secretariat, Tel:
Chhinh Nyda, Head of Research and Publication Unit, Tel: