UPGRADING AND SUSTAINING DISTANCE EDUCATION

MINESUP- MINESEC agree to mutualise their resources to ameliorate the Cameroonian Education System through continuous Digitalization.

This is the outcome of an inter-ministerial working session co-chaired by the Minister of State, Minister of Higher Education Prof. Jacques FAME NDONGO and the Minister of Secondary Education, Professor Nalova LYONGA on Friday, 24 June 2022 at the Cameroon Universities Network and Digital Development Centre in Yaoundé.

During this meeting the two members of government acknowledged the efforts the State has made so far in the digitalization of education in Cameroon through the Cameroon Universities Network and Digital Development Centre and MINESEC’s Distance Education Centre and sort for ways to mutualise their efforts for continuous digitalization from Secondary to Higher Education.

At the end of the working session, both ministers jointly decided to collaborate in mutualising the methods of the two administrations as far as the digital transformation of the Cameroon Education System is concerned. The effective cooperation between the Cameroon Universities Network and Digital Development Centre and MINESEC’s Distance Education Centre, to build the capacities of Secondary School Teachers in Digital Pedagogic Technology through all the Departments of Computer Sciences in HTTCs and HTTTCs, as well as use the infrastructure and resources of both Ministries with a view to improving and modernizing the educational system.

Finally, the two members of government took the engagement to regularly evaluate this new collaboration in order to substantially improve and modernize digital education within their two ministerial departments.

It is important to state here that, this falls in line with the implementation of the very high directives of the Head of State, His Excellency Paul Biya on the digitalization of the educational system in Cameroon enshrined in the National Development Strategy (NDS30).

K. T Lois NGEK/ CELCOM