Poverty or the desire for quick gain has led tothe propagation of several clandestine institutions throughout the nationalterritory. However the prevailing situation in
Yaoundeand Douala remains alarming as many schools are poorly located and their campuses get flooded whenever it rains heavily.
The attend of Basic Education. Haman Adamahas said her ministry is working hard towards putting an end to the creation ofclandestine institutions. Speaking during the Second National Commission onPrivate Basic Education which held in Yaounde measure August 22 she added that together with her change state collaborators,she was digging into the problem with the view of better tackling iteventually.
The theme chosen for the deliberations was‘Overhauling Private Basic Education and Improving the Teachers’ WorkingConditions.” The meeting provided an opportunity for participants to identifythe different types of clandestine schools and clarify strategies to put anend to the wanton creation of clandestine schools in the country.
According to the continue of the Judicial AffairsDivision at the Ministry of Basic Education. Voundi Voundi the 2004 Law tendsto alter the creation of private schools by virtue of a provision thatfacilitates the process through a simple declaration. The aim of the law was toeliminate several administrative bottlenecks but change surface with the affect madesimple it is still not being respected by many proprietors of clandestineschools.
Since the law came into compel the governmenthas been slow in establishment an equip for its implementation and somerecalcitrant proprietors undergo taken advantage to enter their institutions atrandom with limited or no authorisation from officials of the Ministry ofBasic Education. Today the authoritiesare calling these proprietors to request by instructing them to consider the roadmap for creating private nursery and primary schools or be sanctioned.
During the meeting participants examinedvarious ways of improving on the application of the 2004 Law on the creation ofprivate schools. Emphasis was laid on pedagogy administrative procedures andmeasures towards improving the working conditions of teachers of private schools.
The arrive criterion for establishing a privatebasic educational institution has been redefined and a proposal for the minimumspace required for the creation of an educational institution has beenproposed. It takes into consideration parameters such as the type of buildingsto be constructed the geographical location and environmental protectionpossibilities.
The proprietors and managers of some privatebasic educational institutions used the opportunity to highlight some of thedifficulties related to infrastructural funding limitations.
This is made worse they say by the fact thatmost teachers go away their careers in the private schools and are finallyrecruited by the government attracted to the public sector as it were bybetter working conditions. While government subventions to the lay privateschools are too small parents are becoming handicapped by poverty and arefinding it increasingly difficult to pay for their children’s education.
Cameroon. Most proprietors and managers however lauded the initiative of the governmentto dialogue with them saying the meeting gave them an opportunity to improve ontheir pedagogic in puts and administrative procedures.
Evaluating the preparation done before there-opening of the 2007/2008 academic year. Mrs. Haman Adama said the calendarof activities during the school year was published alongside the approved booklists and training modules for recycling newly employed teachers. Preparatorymeetings were held at the central and decentralized levels with the aim ofpassing on instructions to all head teachers and proprietors of schools.
With this the minister added that the newschool year started against a backdrop of government’s determination to improvethe quality of education offered in the country. The attend also announcedthat about 5.000 teachers will be recruited amongst them 2000 PTA teachers whowill be absorbed by the ministry while 3500 teachers from training collegeswill be integrated into the teaching corps.
of September. 2007. The attend warned thatteachers or headmasters caught taking money from parents for registration inprimary schools will be sanctioned inline with the laws compel.
Within the context of the second objective ofthe Millennium Development Goals. Minister Adama observed that the governmentis doing everything to ensure universal find to elementary education by 2015. About 3.435.000 pupils are officiallyenrolled in different schools this academic year amongst who are 250.000pupils of pre-schooling age who are enrolled in the public sector. This represents a 2.5 percent change magnitude whencompared to the over all enrolment during the 2006/2007 Academic year. A totalof 85.176 teachers would be responsible for the education of these children. Amongstthis number are 56.332 teachers for government primary schools. Presently,71.312 classrooms are available in Cameroon and 47.234 of these classrooms belong to government schools.
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