Enhancing Better Quality Education

The past weeks have witnessed an atmosphere heavily charged with the desire to boost education of better quality in Cameroon.

 

Trade Unions of the two sub systems of education have been on their toes worrying government on the need to readjust certain policies in a bid to improve the quality of education in the country. These movements have left no one indifferent. That education should provoke such public concerns and such prompt reaction from the government epitomised by a series of Presidential measures is surely indicative of the importance of the sector for the development of the country. Education, in effect, is the foundation of development. All governments are aware of this and work tirelessly to ensure its smooth organisation and functioning.

In Cameroon, on the bases of its history and bi-cultural nature, education is broken into two sub systems but the substratum remains its compulsory nature. It is an obligation to be educated in Cameroon and to be educated officially freely at the primary, secondary and high school levels. Government’s effort at giving Cameroonians good quality education is translated through a number of policies, even though some people seem not to be fully satisfied with them. In any case, that is what makes society complete.

But what is clear is that every year the highest budget of the Finance Law is devoted to education. In the same vein new teachers graduating from Higher Teacher Training Colleges better known by their French abbreviation as ENS are immediately integrated into the Public Service. In order to better manage the sector, government decided to split education into three departments: basic, secondary and higher education.

The happenings in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon remain disheartening especially as they ignited a medley of misinterpretations magnified by the social media. Perhaps because government has often been slow in its reaction but steady, people concluded that it had no listening ear. Government’s approach has often been that of avoiding to be controlled by emotions because emotions can result into mistakes, some of which can lead the country completely astray. 

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