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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE CELEBRATED

Top national laureates in the 2022 Baccalaureat and GCE-A Level exam session acknowledged for their outstanding performances.

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They were 10 laureates, each representing their native region, plus 5 best performing girls selected nationwide to have been awarded scholarships by the BGFI-Bank, on 28 September 2022 in Yaounde.

This initiative which is the brainchild of the BGFI-Bank was spearheaded by the Ministry of Secondary Education with the aim to recognize and further promote excellence in academics as advocated for in the Clean School vision.

For their brilliant achievement in the Baccalaureat and GCE-A Level examinations for the 2022 session, the BGFI-Bank awarded each laureate a scholarship to the tune of 1,000,000 F CFA to support their quest for excellence. The high point of the ceremony was undoubtedly the revelation of DJAMILA MOHAMADOU, a female student from the Adamawa Region who emerged best all-round candidate in the 2022 Session in the Technical and Vocational Education Exams (TVEE) organized by the GCE Board. No one could believe that the top performer in Technical Education examinations in the English sub system could come from the Adamawa Region.

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Presiding at the ceremony alongside His Excellency Philemon Yang, Grand Chancellor of National Orders, and Pauline Irène Nguene, Minister of Social Affairs, Professor Nalova Lyonga, Minister of Secondary Education, hailed the commitment of the BGFI-Bank in nurturing and fostering “clean” values in youths by rewarding excellence in school. The gesture of the BGFI-Bank is unprecedented in the Ministry of Secondary Education. It is a morale-boosting action to young learners who are highly encouraged to focus more on their studies.

Pouamou Foyet Ali Chimoun, the national best performing laureate who hails from the West Region, indicated that this prize will contribute in sponsoring his studies and achieving his cherished dream of becoming a mechanical engineer in aeronautics.

Abakal Mahamat, Executive General Manager of BGFI-Bank affirmed the pledge of the Bank’s foundation to stand with the Government in promoting excellence in education so as to help Cameroon secure a brighter future through learned youths.

Aimé Ngidjol

Celcom/MINESEC

2022-2023 SCHOOL YEAR IN MINESEC

LET’S EMBRACE THE AGE OF THE MOBILE AND AGILE CLASSROOM

Professor Nalova Lyonga encourages stakeholders in education to adopt the digitalisation of teaching so to advance with the modern times.

The 2022/2023 school year in the Ministry of Secondary Education (MINESEC) will be marked by the improvement of the training provision through a hybrid teaching model encompassing Distance Education and in-presence teaching.

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This is the key message, Prof Nalova Lyonga, Minister of Secondary Education, delivered to the Education Community during the ceremony marking the solemn pedagogic resumption of the 2022/2023 school year. All high-ranking officials of the Ministry, including the Secretary-General, Prof Fabien Nkot, the Inspector General of Education (IGE), Jean Paul Marcellin Mebada, the Inspector General of Services (IGS), Akat Fidelis Etta, Directors, Regional Delegates and principals gathered around the Minister of Secondary Education at Government Bilingual High School Essos, on Monday, 29 August 2022.

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The solemn pedagogic resumption of the 2022/2023 school year centred on the theme “Digitalisation of teaching: an effective and efficient determining factor for the provision of training at the Ministry of Secondary Education” provided MINESEC officials with an ideal platform to review the strides made so far with the Distance Education and to discuss the way forward for an increased use of digitalisation for teaching purposes.

In her keynote address, Professor Nalova Lyonga instructed teachers to embrace Distance Education and to articulate it with the in-presence teaching mode so as to help learners bridge the technology gap towards advanced countries and achieve greater and better results needed to live in the 21^st century.

In the same vein, Jean Paul Marcellin Mebada highlighted the numerous advantages of digitalisation in the pedagogic follow-up of learners while Inspectors Coordinator-General, Jean Pierre Adjaba Biwoli, Philémon Ndi Sara and Fomboh Julius Fombutu, expounded respectively on the situation of Distance Education in Cameroon, how digitalisation is shaping classroom activities and evaluation. The Regional Delegate for the South-West, Mbuah Hannah Etonde, presented the contribution of digitalisation in building educational resilience in violence-prone areas.

All these presentations acknowledged that the digitalisation of teaching is ushering in the era of the mobile and agile classroom for which secondary school teachers should be prime movers, hence this urgent call made by the Minister of Secondary Education: “My colleagues, we have a task to be as good as the first. Well, we might not all get the goals at the same time, but we shall try; we shall try to do the best that we can. Digitalisation gives us the opportunity to be able to do things that people cannot do. We bring the machines to the fore to achieve as much as we can achieve. Welcome the machines and you will find that you are having almost the same results as those in the West”.

A. Ngidjol

Celcom/MINESEC