Cambodia and Thailand have some differences in policies on basic education. The study
noticed that Cambodia experienced the remarkable dropout rate despite of its success in enrollment due the internal inefficiency of the education system and the exclusive poor communities in the remote areas. That was the significant transformation from primary school to secondary school that showed the big gap for the success of compulsory 9-year education in Cambodia. However, Thailand has face the similar problem. The government has put effort in dealing with this issues and UNESCO (2012) stated that the children who are out of school do not mean they have never entered school. In fact, some exposer to the formal school and leave school while some have never attended at all due to the poverty, migration issue, child labor and uneasy access to the schooling in the far remote areas. The two governments have struggled in promoting the internal education quality to retain the children.