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Cameroon: Secondary Education Newly Recruited Staff Empowereds


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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)

20 March 2008
Posted to the web 20 March 2008

Elizabeth Mosima

A workshop to that effect ended in Yaounde yesterday.

Aone-day training seminar for newly recruited staff of the Ministry of Secondary Education took place in Yaounde yesterday. Organised by the Project for Assistance for Reforms of Education (PARE) and the Cameroon-France Cooperation, the workshop brought together teachers from the country. The seminar, which the third in a series aimed at training teachers new skills and give them the necessary advice in the profession to enable them face the challenges in the field.

The workshop was lead by experts from the Ministry of Secondary Education. The young teachers were drilled on topics such as the organisation of the education system, the teacher and the school life, the field of action of the teacher, the rights of the teachers and the students, as well as the sanctions that they might face in the profession. Unlike in the previous years where the workshop took place for two days, this year it lasted for only one day. At the end of the workshop, the teachers are expected to report to their various postings early enough, be professionally conscious, and better train their students to enable them succeed in life.

Speaking during the occasion, the Secretary of State for Secondary Education, Catherine Abena, called on the teachers to put into practice the knowledge acquired during the workshop as they go to the field. The batch of the third edition was christened "Bath of Excellence". She called on the instructors to equip the new staff with adequate knowledge to make them veritable knights of the education systems in Cameroon.



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