The minister of Secondary Education has ‘banned’ the submission of hand-written assignments within the secondary education milieu. Decision was taken by the minister during an interview granted her by the Cameroon Radio Television, CRTV during their 3pm radio newscast earlier this week.
Minister Paukine Egbe Nalova Lyonga was interviewed shortly after an inspection visit to schools in Mfou, Chief Town of Mefou and Afamba Division in the Centre region. She expressed her wish to see advancement in computer studies in schools nationwide.
“Computer is what holds development today. With the century where we are today, without computers you are lost,” Nalova said. “…everybody who is doing assignments should do it by typing them on computers. No more hand writing things,” Nalova declared.
She went further and explaining “…that is why in schools today, we have two types of computers studies – that which requires general knowledge of the subject and a second class that does computer studies. Those are the developers; they’re people who develop the software”.
She recommended that school administrators should ensure availability of smaller classrooms that is dedicated to those who study computers as a field before the larger classes to those who are just interested in having basic knowledge of computers since large assignments are no longer done by hand-written according to the minister.
“That is why I insist one must see that scale of work reflected on the number of computers,” she said.
Nalova disclosed that there are more than 2000 students who are doing the interactive live stream of revisions through the ministry’s distance learning programme.
“We think that they are able to get on to it. So 2000 and something is quiet good and they were so excited – they would answer questions, talk to their professors. This is very advantageous” she revealed.
She hailed the respect of all anti-COVID-19 barrier measures at the start of the third and shortest term of the academic year. “…that is the first thing that we wanted to see…they are well prepared for it; everybody is very aware of it. Even while in class, the teacher must ensure that the students have their mask and then are all aware of it,” she said.
By Doh Bertrand Nua
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