- PM urges education ministers to ensure early publication of results
The ministers of basic, secondary and higher education have made assurances of adequate measures taken to ensure a hitch-free conduct of the end-of-year examinations across the conflict-hit North West and South West regions like other parts of the country.
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Profs. Laurent Serge Etondi Ngoa, Nalova Lyonga and Jacques Fame Ndongo gave the assurances during separate presentations made during the May cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Chief Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute. The presentations focused on the progress of the 2020/2021 academic year.
The pledges followed instructions from the PM for them to ensure proper organization of the examinations throughout the national territory as well as ensure the publication of the results one month before the start of the next school year in order to avoid any shift in the next school calendar.
Prof Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa of Basic Education said the quantitative coverage the curriculum was 85%.
He disclosed that 541 206 candidates have registered for the First School Leaving Certificate and its French equivalent which continues till June 30 with the written phase. He said specific measures have been taken to secure examination centres in the NW, SW regions where candidates were registered in all subdivisions unlike in the 2020 session.
On her part, Secondary Education Minister, Prof. Nalova Lyonga stated that despite the challenges of the health crisis, practical work reached 60% while the scheme of work for the academic year has been covered by 85% thanks to distance learning education especially in the two crisis-hit Anglophone regions where more students have gone back to school with regards to preparations for the official examinations and competitive entrance examinations.
She said material and security arrangements have already been made to accommodate the 1 131 360 registered candidates.
Prof Jacques Fame Ndongo of Higher Education stressed that due to the persistence of the health crisis, the calendar of the school year was amended to make up for the delay of the previous year considering the need for in-person and distance learning.
He said the curriculum of the higher education family are 60% covered with constant lectures still ongoing. He noted the academic year will end August 4, adding that the results of the second recruitment ordered by the Head of State have been published with 549 new lecturers to take service soon.
By Doh Bertrand Nua
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