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Cameroon: GCE Practicals Begin in over 200 Centres
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
13 May 2008
Posted to the web 13 May 2008
Nkeze Mbonwoh
The Registrar of the GCE Board, Humphrey Monono shuttled through many centres in Fako Division and concluded that all had started off on a good footing.
The GCE 2008 Practicals began 12 May throughout the national territory in over 200 accommodation Centres and will end 29 May. The written part of the GCE starts 2nd June through 21st June. The GCE Board Registrar, Humphrey Monono, toured a number of centres in the South West beginning with Muyuka where he confirmed all was moving according to plan.
The Registrar told Cameroon Tribune midday, (yesterday), that but for a few transportation difficulties at the beginning, all was under control with all material conveyed to the hinterlands. "We are only praying that all our candidates who registered for the exam should remain healthy throughout the exercise ", Monono said to Cameroon Tribune. The Practicals concern Geology, Physics Biology, Chemistry, and Food and Nutrition. "I observed the supervisors going about their work and some of them are very experienced, so they were acting according to instructions and the specimens were all there", the Registrar added. The Registrar instructed that no cameras should be allowed into the rooms where practicals were going on because, as he said, "if watched on TV or otherwise candidates may begin to imagine what the exam looks like. The Practicals were conducted in BGS Molyko hitcfree.
Remarkably is the increase this year of some 11,000 candidates duly registered for the exam. That is growing from over 76,650 in 2007 to 87,659 this year. The increase is quite high as many schools are getting to Form Five and Upper Six.
With an ever growing number of candidates at the GCE exam it becomes incumbent on the Board to appropriate its own infrastructure and the urgency is on a permanent office for which they have already a piece of land at Molyko near the Bilingual Grammar School.. Registrar Monono explained to Cameroon Tribune that the Board does not manage investment as that is left to the Ministry of Secondary Education. He, however. hinted that studies were advanced so that work on the Board's Office could begin before September 2009. The building will entail complexes and printing units, auditoriums for type setting and moderation, laboratories for testing of some materials, and "the whole cost may grow from what we initially proposed CFA 2,7 billion to some CFA 3 billion."
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The Registrar called on parents, the watchdog committees and all those involved with the exam to have eyes open and ears to the ground to reduce malpractices. In perspective the GCE Board envisages to increase its exam subjects from 16 at O/L and 13 at A/L to add Computer Science and Fine Arts hopefully from next year.
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