The Cambodian government has announced a plan to provide bilingual education for its ethnic minority children. The minorities, living mostly in northern Cambodia, will be taught in their indigenous languages and the national language, Khmer.
The government’s program will be modelled on a project started by CARE Cambodia in 2007, which now has 4,000 children from ethnic minorities in 43 schools. Cambodian officials said the benefits of bilingual education are well established.
