North West: PM Yang To Reinforce Back-To-School Resolve
- Par Carine ELEME (stagiaire
- 06 mars 2017 12:08
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His visit to all divisions of the region comes on the heels of a meeting of proprietors, PTAs to reopen schools
Prime Minister, Philemon Yang will as from today March 6, 2017 begin a tour of all seven Divisions of the North West Region to talk to parents, teachers, school proprietors and other education stakeholders about the importance of having children of the region to return to classes. It follows several unsuccessful attempts by government and other actors in society to convince the parents of security measures and State readiness to offer solutions to problems posed by Anglophone Teachers which have kept educational establishments closed down for three months now.
Ahead of the arrival of the Prime Minister, school Proprietors and PTA presidents in Bamenda took the commitment to open their school gates latest on March 7, 2017. The resolution was arrived at during a meeting in the North West Governor’s office on Thursday March 2nd. The meeting that was chaired by the Governor of the North West Region, Adolphe Lele L'Afrique was opened to Proprietors, PTA presidents, principles of lay private schools and authorities of mission schools. During the meeting, the various school authorities expressed worries of threats from unidentified persons. The meeting that was not open to the press came on the heels of the non-resumption of some schools in the region after the suspension of the strike by the All Anglophone Teachers’ Trade Unions on February 4, 2017.
At the end of meeting, the spoke person of the PTA presidents Ndikum Peter revealed that they unanimously took a commitment that all schools should open their doors latest March 7, 2017 so that children can effectively receive lessons . He said they were ready to sacrifice the Easter holiday and will respect the readjustment of the academic year so as to meet up with the time lost. The regional delegates for basic and secondary education were present to give statistics for school attendance and registration of certificate examinations. For the Regional Delegate for Secondary E...
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