KOICA to provide Human Resource Development Center project to Royal University of Phnom Penh

KOICA to provide Human Resource Development Center project to Royal University of Phnom Penh

KOICA News Release: translate from local newspaper

Kohsantepheap Daily:

Year 43 Volume 7047, Monday, August 30, 2010

Read this article in Khmer below:

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Phnom Penh: Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will donate Human Resource Development Center project for Royal University of Phnom Penh with the estimated cost of $6.5 million.

The project was designed with the purpose to improve national competitiveness of Cambodia through human resource development program. For 5 years, expected to start from 2010 to 2014, the project will cover the establishment Human Resource Development Center equipped with modern teaching materials, creating human resource development program including Information Technology, and Technical Training courses, and dispatching Korean experts.

The final agreement over this project will be signed by the both countries after the last seminar to be held on August 31, 2010 which focus on the presentation and discussion of result of basic design study of Cambodia-Korea Human Resource Development Center with all project’s stakeholders such as the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport.

The seminar on the Project for the Establishment of Human Resource Development Center in Cambodia will be held on August 31, 2010, KOICA in cooperation with the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) will organize a seminar to discuss about the result of basic design of Cambodia-Korea Human Resource Development Center. H.E. Lav Chhiv Eav, Rector of the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and Dr. Shin Eui-Cheol, new Representative of KOICA office in Cambodia will preside over this seminar. During this seminar, KOICA’s Basic Design Study team will present their study result and collect feedback to reach to finalize their study report.