Cambodian children experience extensive "learning loss" during pandemic, according to education research

A young girl is seen with her mother commuting on a motorcycle at Street 27 in the Phnom Penh's Meanchey district on April 4, 2022. - Phnom Penh Post/ANN

PHNOM PENH, April 5 (Xinhua): Cambodia's Ministry of Education and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday jointly revealed alarming new findings about learning loss experienced by Cambodian students during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The results emerged from the ministry's latest National Grade six Learning Assessment, which was conducted in November 2021 on more than 6,000 students in 230 schools across Cambodia and found that children had fallen behind in their learning during the pandemic, said a joint statement.