By DOH JAMES SONKEY
The National Commission for the Evaluation of Training Domains Offered Abroad has met at its 91st ordinary session for 2018 and detected 63 fake certificates (62 baccalaureates from the Central African Republic and 1 Degree of Engineer from Russia.)
Chairing the session last April 26, 2019 at the Higher Teacher Training College in Yaounde on behalf of Minister of State for Higher Education and Chancellor of Academic Orders, Prof Jacques Fame Ndongo, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Higher Education, Prof Wilfred Gabsa called on members to show proof of objectivity, rigour and transparency in examining the 426 files submitted to them for scrutiny from 146 institutions in 43 countries.
Some 5 certificates were rejected because the institutions were not officially homologated, unauthorized delocalized formation and a total of 357 equivalences were granted.
session on behalf of Minister of State
Commission for Training Domains Offered Abroad detects 63 fake certificates
Hinting that reforms to modernize the system for the treatment of equivalence files are on good footing, Prof Wilfred Gabsa explained that “the Commission for which, the Vice Chair is the Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reforms is an inter-ministerial forum that makes proposals on equivalences for foreign certificates, academic entitlements and grades, as well as on the recognition of foreign institutions whose certificates can lead to the integration, reclassification or advancement of civil servants of the various corps of the Cameroonian civil service in keeping with the rules and regulations that apply.”
On the particularity of the session, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Higher Education, Prof Wilfred Gabsa told reporters that “it is holding after the January 4th cabinet shakeup that saw the promotion of the Commission’s Chair, Prof Jacques Fame Ndongo to Minister of State for Higher Education. We congratulated him and also the newly promoted Director for the Coordination of Academic Activities in the Ministry of Higher Education, Prof Emvudu.”
He expressed gratitude to the government for making available funds for the commission to meet and decide on the academic faith of citizens who studied abroad despite security challenges in the country draining state resources.