The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) announced plans to deploy 4,100 officials and volunteers to observe this year’s high school diploma exams, scheduled for two days beginning on August 28.
The deployment aims to prevent irregularities, including corruption, in the exam process.
According to the ACU, this year’s force will include 400 of its own officials — among them judicial police officers — along with 3,700 volunteer observers.
They will monitor, collect information and evidence, and report on irregularities across the 6,024 classrooms in the 241 nationwide exam centres.
The number of ACU officials and volunteers is an increase over the 2024 deployment, with 54 additional staff and 382 more volunteers. The increase aligns with a rise in student candidates.
The ACU explained that the volunteer observers are carefully selected based on specific criteria. They are required to have sufficient personal resources — including time, transportation, accommodation and food — to carry out their monitoring duties independently.
Their role is to support the ACU by reporting what they see, hear and witness during the exams, both to the ACU and the public.
The ACU praised the Cambodian youth and citizens who volunteered, calling their contribution to state and social work “a spirit that should be recorded and never forgotten”.
The unit also reaffirmed its commitment to enforcing all applicable laws and regulations governing the exam process, including the Law on Education and government directives on exam order and discipline, as well as relevant ministerial announcements and guidelines. In addition, the ACU said it would apply the Penal Code, the Anti-Corruption Law and the Civil Servants Statute, along with any other legal provisions that may b necessary.
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport reiterated its guiding principle that “those who know, will pass”, stressing its continued efforts — at both the national and sub-national levels — to reform the exam system to ensure fairness and integrity, and earn the support and confidence of the public.
Ministry director-general Hour Chhunkry informed The Post that the ministry will hold a press conference on the upcoming exams on Friday.
He had earlier announced that 146,720 students have registered this year, including 81,442 females. Among them, 106,042 are in the social sciences stream, while 40,678 are in the sciences stream.
Last year, 137,040 candidates registered for the exams, with 106,351 passing — a success rate of 79 per cent. 2,216 students received grade A results, 9,701 grade B, 22,675 grade C, 36,683 grade D and 35,076 grade E.
