Cambodian public schooling is officially free. In reality families incur considerable costs, including for supplementary education.
The paper presents data from six secondary schools in one province, examining the nature and dynamics of tutoring.
Major questions arise from the fact that much tutoring is provided by serving teachers, commonly to their own students and in their own schools.
The tutoring partly arises because of government underfunding of salaries; but since teachers earn the extra incomes, underfunding is able to continue.