The six boarding schools for more than 1,000 Khmer students in the province have included the Khmer language in their curriculum, according to a report from the provincial People’s Committee.

Khmer students have been exempted from school fees and poor students have been provided with textbooks and schooling aids.

Tran Viet Hung, director of the provincial Education and Training Department, said 6,600 students last year took a test of proficiency in Khmer, and up to 98 percent of them were rated qualified.

The province has more than 68,000 Khmer students learning Vietnamese and Khmer in the current school year.