By DOH JAMES SONKEY
Vice Chancellors of the universities of Buea and Bamenda and their respective staff and students have been congratulated for braving all odds for the past three years to make sure that academic activities go on unperturbed in these state universities stationed in the troubled South West and North West regions. They were congratulated for keeping floating the national flag by the Minister of State for Higher Education and Chancellor of Academic Orders, Prof Jacques Fame Ndongo, last September 12, 2019 in Yaounde, as he opened a preparatory meeting for the 2019/2020 academic year.
He encouraged them to remain courageous and steadfast in their missions as government does its best to restore peace and stability in these regions.
Addressing Heads of the 8 state universities, the Interstate Cameroon-Congo University, the Pan-African University, the four major schools which are under the academic supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education (National Institute of Youth and Sport, INJS, the National Advanced School of Posts, Telecommunications and ICTs, SUP’PTIC, the National Advanced School of Public Works and the Nautical Arts and Fisheries Institute as well as representatives of the 262 private institutions of higher education, the Minister of State tasked them to finalize strategies to ensure that the new academic year in all higher education institutions takes place in an atmosphere of peace, calm, serenity and scientific pro-activity.
He prescribed that the Cameroon Director of the Inter State University does his best to organize the competitive entrance examination into this school ahead of the launching of its academic activities in November 2019.
He added that government has put all it takes for the Pan African Institute to open its doors this academic year.
Prof Fame Ndongo asked the university heads to appropriate the result based road map for the 2019/2020 academic year in order to provide quality education to youths.
The meeting was also marked by the presentation of technical details on what will feature in the brainstorming by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Higher Education, Prof Wilfred Gabsa and academic activities in the various state universities and their preparedness for the new academic year by Vice Chancellors and Rectors.