Cambodia aspires to become a knowledge-based society to remain relevant in the context of the global knowledge-based economy. However, it remains uncertain how this aspiration can be realized considering the low quality of the country’s education system. Drawing on secondary sources, this article aims to shed light on Cambodia’s aspirations for a knowledge-based society. The article begins by defining the term “knowledge-based society” before providing an overview of the Cambodian education system and discussing key challenges that limit Cambodia’s ability to realize its vision to become a knowledge society. Key challenges were related to low higher education enrollment, a shortage of educational staff with doctoral degrees, a weak innovation capacity, and other critical challenges such as low academic salaries, a lack of clear academic career pathways, limited research funding, and limited knowledge about research. The article provides a set of recommendations that concerned stakeholders should consider to improve the quality of the Cambodian education system and support the country to achieve its goal in developing into a knowledge-based society. It concludes with suggestions for future research to generate new knowledge about Cambodia—a context underrepresented in international literature.

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柬埔寨成为知识型社会的愿望：挑战与建议

柬埔寨渴望成为一个知识型社会，以便在全球知识型经济的背景下保持重要地位。然而，考虑到该国教育体系质量低下，如何实现这一愿望仍不确定。本文利用二手资料，旨在阐明柬埔寨对知识型社会的渴望。本文首先定义了“知识型社会”一词，然后概述了柬埔寨的教育体系，并讨论了限制柬埔寨实现知识社会愿景的主要挑战。主要挑战包括高等教育入学率低、拥有博士学位的教育人员短缺、创新能力薄弱，以及其他关键挑战，例如学术工资低、缺乏明确的学术职业道路、研究经费有限以及对知识的了解有限。研究。文章提出了一系列有关利益相关者应考虑的建议，以提高柬埔寨教育系统的质量并支持该国实现发展成为知识型社会的目标。最后，它对未来的研究提出了建议，以产生有关柬埔寨的新知识——这一背景在国际文献中未被充分体现。