Development Projects : World Bank Continues to Equip Universities

A workshop on the third phase of the African Centres of Excellence for dev’t impact took place yesterday in Yaounde.

The World Bank is keen on supporting Higher Education Science and Technology in Africa particularly in post-graduate training in oil and gas, health sector, engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, all in a bid to support and develop Master’s and PHD programmes in areas that address the continent’s development challenges.

It is within this backdrop that yesterday, January 25, 2018, experts from the World Bank and actors in the higher education sector in Cameroon met to discuss priority areas that can be addressed as the bank prepares to launch the third phase of the project, “African Centres of Excellence for Development Impact (ACE Impact)”.

Opening the workshop was the Minister of Higher Education, Jacques Fame Ndongo, who lauded the contribution of the World Bank, saying, it falls within the New University Governance policy prescribed by the Head of State. That is quality assurance, professionalization of training programmes, the employment of higher education graduate and the digitalisation of university education.

According to the World Bank Education Economist for West and Central Africa, Himdat Bayusuf, the World Bank is out to pull resources and faculties in the ability to establish strong universities that can produce the required research in solving development challenges of the continent.<...