Vutha Ros

• Master of Education in Higher Education
• Co-founder at Cambodian Education Forum

Worldwide, markets challenge academics to keep their professional competency constantly improving. While in some countries governments, universities and individual scholars synergize their efforts to improve conditions for professional development, in others the stakeholders act in a chaotic and uncommitted manner. This paper examines the efforts o...

The academic profession in Cambodia has been under growing pressure to pursue excellence in higher education. Nonetheless, various interpretations of what constitutes excellence persist across the public and private sectors, as lecturers follow disparate goals in teaching and research at various jobs and institutions. For many, the diversity of per...

This qualitative study aims to explore how faculty members at Cambodian universities conceive their academic identities, engage in different types of scholarly roles and perceive the organisation of the academic career system. The sample for this research comprises 47 faculty members from 10 Cambodian universities, covering public, private and publ...

The current study aims to put the concept of university accountability in Cambodia in its proper perspective. It examines how accountability in Cambodian universities is oriented towards different accounting constituencies (i.e. the government, the market, academia and international/supranational platforms). Guided by local literature, the study al...

Campus crisis management remains an understudied topic in the context of COVID‐affected higher education. In this paper, we contrasted the ability to tame the wicked problems brought by the pandemic of COVID‐19 in private and public universities in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Colombia, India, Kazakhstan, Uganda, and Ukraine. The cross‐country analysis an...

Research on tensions between continuity and change in the internationalization of higher education remains scant. The transformative forces generating these tensions are under-investigated. Using insights from interviews with 21 internationally-educated professors from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, this paper examines the role...

Recent decades have seen resources and efforts invested in increasing university research productivity in Asian countries to enhance the competitiveness of universities in global university rankings and to participate in the global knowledge-based economy. In Cambodia, the government and many higher education institutions have also been implementin...

The collapse of the Soviet Union has dramatically impacted the work of scholars across the post-Soviet space. As their higher education systems have been transforming from the Soviet model of higher education, they have had to adapt themselves to maintain their academic work and career. This doctoral project compares the lives of scholars in Cambod...

The collapse of the Soviet Union has dramatically impacted the work of scholars across the post-Soviet space. As their higher education systems have been transforming from the Soviet model of higher education, they have had to adapt themselves to maintain their academic work and career. This doctoral project compares the lives of scholars in Cambod...

World-class university status and university rankings have captured the attention of many countries, including developing countries. While many countries in Asia, such as China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia, have endeavored to have their universities ranked highly in the league tables, Cambodia seems not to be influenced by this glob...

The academic profession in Cambodia has been under growing pressure to pursue excellence in higher education. Nonetheless, various interpretations of what constitutes excellence persist across the public and private sectors, as lecturers follow disparate goals in teaching and research at various jobs and institutions. For many, the diversity of per...

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K-W-L developed by Ogle (1986) is considered a very popular teaching model. Various research has pointed how this What I know, What I want to know, What I learned strategy has been used to teach not only reading but also other skills and how it has been added to other teaching models to assist language learners to improve their proficiency. This po...

Independent learning is believed to play a key role in students' success in both academic and career life. Many higher educational institutions are trying to instill this learning concept in their students to allow them to pursue lifelong learning. Many pieces of research in this area have been conducted, none of which, however, has been conducted...