Royal University of Phnom Penh: Excellence in Education
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Introduction

Our comprehensive programs are designed to help adult learners achieve their educational and professional goals through flexible, high-quality instruction.

The Continuing Education Center (CEC) at the Royal University of Phnom Penh has been a cornerstone of professional development since 2004. Established with support from Simon Fraser University and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), we bridge academic excellence with real-world skills.

With the rapid expansion of higher education institutions and the ever increasing student enrolments in higher education institutions in Cambodia, the Department of Higher Education Studies was established to train students to gain a better grasp of the development of higher education systems, the current challenges facing higher education institutions at both institutional and national level, and how these constraints may be addressed. Various theoretical perspectives illustrated through empirical case studies from different contexts around the world will be examined to shed light on the issues and challenges faced by higher education institutions in Cambodia.

Expected Learning Outcomes
Students who choose this major and successfully complete the program are expected to be able to:

    • describe various issues and constraints faced by higher education at institutional and national levels;
    • demonstrate understanding of the development of higher education in the country and beyond;
    • demonstrate understanding of theories and issues related to the organizational management, leadership and supervision in higher education;
    • demonstrate understanding of theories that are related to capacity development of the faculty members, management of student affairs, and administrative work of the higher education institutions;
    • critically analyze and interpret current research findings and make use of the findings for the institutional development;
    • critically analyze institutional issues and strategically propose alternative solutions based on theories, practices and empirical findings;
    • analyze and interpret documents of higher education legal instruments to be implemented at the institutional and national levels; and
    • build character and moral performances to work professionally, creatively and collaboratively.

About (គ្មានcontent)

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The irruption of Human Resource Management (HRM) as a strategic element for quality development of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is relatively recent. Few decades back and until our days, HR approaches just focused on staff recruitment, employment contracts and payment

Vision (គ្មានcontent)

where the curriculums are based on what is available in the competitions. The courses provided to Cambodian gifted students to prepare for the competitions include Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Research Methodology, and so on. Since its establishment in 2004, CEC has developed and offered (on campus/outside campus) a number of courses such as

  • Internet for University Student
  • Intensive Course in Web Design
  • Network Administration Using Linux
  • Information Technology for Specific Purposes
  • Network Administration Using Windows Server
  • Electronic Equipment and Computer Repairing
  • Statistical Analysis Using SPSS for Research (Descriptive and Inferential Statistics)
  • Physics for High School Teacher
  • Physics for APhO/IPhO
  • Astronomy/Astrophysics for IOAA
  • Mathematics for IMO/APMO
  • Research Methodology for SSYS
  • TOEFL iBT Preparation
  • Certificate in TESOL
  • Academic Proposal Writing
  • Academic Presentation Skills
  • Academic Project Management
  • TOEFL ITP Preparation
  • Professional and Oral Communications in English
  • Advanced English for Business/Workplace
  • Teaching Professional Development for Teachers of English

Details of each course are available at the website of the university (CEC’s URL).

Goals (គ្មានcontent)

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The irruption of Human Resource Management (HRM) as a strategic element for quality development of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is relatively recent. Few decades back and until our days, HR approaches just focused on staff recruitment, employment contracts and payment

Mission (គ្មានcontent)

RUPP’s CEC is dedicated to promoting individual and community economic status and providing Cambodian of all ages, professions, ethnicities, and background with a wide variety of lifelong learning opportunities.

Goal

  • To inform and enrich working and non-working adult learners through educational activities that are designed to develop their professional, personal, and social skills and to enhance their acquisition of knowledge.
  • To enhance the economic development of Cambodian communities by upgrading the competencies of the labor force and organizational effectiveness in areas relevant to the vision of the CEC.
  • To upgrade the degrees of Cambodian learners by providing Distance Education Programs at RUPP.

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Date: September 4, 2025

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Department of Higher Education Development and Management