Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
Cameroon: Soothing Measures for Teachers' Concerns!
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By Godlove Bainkong - allafrica.com
New
departments created in State Universities, teachers redeployed, school
calendar readjusted... Fruits of frank dialogue under an
inter-ministerial ad hoc committee.
In the wake of
generalized discontent from teachers trade unions of the Anglo-Saxon sub
system of education on what leaders qualified as the erosion of its
values, government has been striving to weather the storm. Ever since
the teachers decided to down tools on 21 November 2016, government has
been moving from negotiations to promises and fulfilment.
The Prime
Minister, Head of Government, by Order No. 118/CAB/PM of 8 November 2016
created a committee tasked with proposing solutions to the concerns of
all teachers in Cameroon. Meanwhile, an Ad Hoc inter-ministerial
Committee tasked specifically with examining the problems of
English-speaking teachers' trade unions was created on 29 November 2016
to tackle issues raised by leaders of the trade unions during
negotiations with the Head of Government in Bamenda on 25 and 26
November 2016.
Palpable Decisions, Visible Fruits With regards to
worries of lack of teachers in Anglophone technical schools, the Head of
State ordered a special recruitment of 1,000 young science and
technical teachers. On the weak financial capacity of lay private and
confessional schools to be up to standards in the training of their
students, the Head of State ordered the setting up of a special fund of
FCFA 2 billion to serve as subsidy for lay private and confessional
schools. For Basic Schools, the Minister of Basic Education prepared the
ground and launched an integration exercise for contract teachers into
the public service.
In fact, a multi-year contracting plan for "parent
teachers" is being implemented with the support of development partners.
Within this framework, some 3,050 "parent teachers" saw their ties
consolidated recently through the contracting process. For the current
financial year, government is working on contracting 2,970 holders of the
Grade I Certificates.
The operation is on course. Secondary Education
The Ministry of Secondary Education undertook an operation to carry out a
survey of secondary schools in view of redeploying teachers. With the
census over, the teachers have been effectively redeployed according to
the needs.
To save the academic year for the English sub system of
education that had suffered under the weight of the prolonged teachers'
strike, the Minister of Secondary Education readjusted the calendar of
the school year from registration for examinations organized by the GCE
Board, through catch-up classes to the written dates for the respective
end-of-course examinations. Field reports indicate that teachers and
students, especially those of examination classes, are burning midnight
oil and stretching full length to be apt for the various examinations.
An expressed lack of French teachers in English-speaking secondary
schools would find a solution with the creation of a Department of
French Modern Letters at the University of Bamenda. An Order to create
this department has already been signed by the Minister of Higher
Education.
Trade Unionists had decried the 'half-baked' nature of some
graduates from the Higher Teachers' Training Colleges which often led to
teachers trained in some system being sent to teach subjects for which
they were not trained or to teach in the specific language of
instruction.
The new department therefore comes to solve a recurrent
problem of avoiding a situation where hastily-trained teachers were made
to teach in their second language. Such a department coupled with the
creation of a National Committee for the Promotion of Bilingualism and
Multiculturalism, could greatly boost the teaching and learning process
in the country as well as enhance the bilingual nature of Cameroonians.
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