Dear LIFT,
I had great
pleasure in reading Mr Lim Sovannarith’s feedback, position and valued comments
about my letter on May 30, 2012. I highly appreciate his fascinating insight
into academic research activities, and I recognise some crucial problems that
could impact Cambodia’s academic freedom. I support the development of research
in the social sciences in our universities. However, I still believe that there
are many obstacles facing students conducting this research in particular. The
main problems could be impacted on the validity and quality of research findings
including human resources, lecturers or academicians’ research capacity,
facilities, library resources and financial support. I’ve observed that most universities
select only outstanding students to write their thesis in accordance with institutional
capacity, while some universities have required all students to write their
thesis without thinking about the ratio between students and supervisors as
well as their institutional capacity.
Ultimately, I
would like to ask some questions: What are the consequences of this academic\ crisis?
How many lecturers hold PhD degree in each university? What facilities can
offer resources to research students? How many academic papers and textbooks do
lecturers publish per year? Why do most universities select so few students to
write a thesis?
Sam Rany
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