Background
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) is responsible for national teacher education policy, including pre-service training, continuous professional development (CPD), and classroom learning standards for primary education.
MoEYS reported that the HRCPD and CPDMIS systems had a combined 99,184 registered users as of March 2026, reflecting digital registration of in-service teacher participation and personnel records under ongoing reform efforts. The GPE5/STEPCamII program is a multi-component initiative administered by MoEYS with development partners to coordinate curriculum review, CPD rollout, classroom interventions, and foundational EdTech planning across target provinces.
Key Developments
- Pre-service and curriculum: Implementation of a BA+1 pre-service training program included training 128 master trainers to prepare teaching for 5,180 scholarship students; review of the 12+4 teacher education curriculum was completed and a strategic plan for teacher education reform was published alongside related documents (figures reported by MoEYS).
- Continuous Professional Development (CPD): Phase 1 of CPD ran in five target provinces with 1,332 registered participants, exceeding the planned 1,260; MoEYS recognised 11 CPD service providers and recorded 62 CPD courses through March 2026.
- Systems and digital tools: Launch of the HRCPD mobile platform (stage 1) and the CPDMIS teacher management system was reported, with 99,184 users registered in the systems by March 2026.
- Classroom learning outcomes: Early grade learning (EGL) training cohorts were conducted in Kampong Cham, Pailin and Ratanakiri; national EGMA/EMA testing showed a rise in minimal proficiency from 31.5% to 40.0% (an 8.5 percentage-point increase).
- Student data: A Student Tracking System (STS) was deployed in 1,319 schools for the 2025–2026 school year to monitor enrolment and learning indicators at school level.
- EdTech and AI readiness: MoEYS completed an assessment of ICT and AI readiness among teachers and leaders, formally adopted a national ICT & AI competency framework for teachers in December 2025, and prepared documentation to establish a National EdTech Innovation Hub.
Institutional Role
The leadership meeting for GPE5/STEPCamII was chaired by State Secretary and Project Director Dr. Nat Bunroeun and included 44 participants (10 women) from MoEYS leadership, provincial teacher training institutes, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, UNESCO Phnom Penh, UNICEF, JICA and the STEPCamII core team. Development partners participated alongside MoEYS to align technical assistance, funding coordination, and monitoring of program outputs.
Operational Implications
The reported outputs document concrete operational actions: deployment of a BA+1 pre-service program with trained master trainers, CPD enrolment data from five provinces, system rollouts for HRCPD and CPDMIS, deployment of STS in 1,319 schools, and measured EGMA/EMA improvements. These items represent program-level milestones that can be used to track implementation progress and system adoption by schools and teacher workforce administrators.
