By Rachel NtubeNgwese in Yaounde
The professionalization of higher education
in both public and private institutions in the country has taken centre stage
in Yaoundé as stakeholders lay the framework for a smooth takeoff of the new
academic year.
The
minister of higher education professor Jacque Fame Ndongo who pilots the Plan
Special Jeune designed by the head of state to ensure the integration of youths
in to the global economy has taken yet another step geared towards the
realization of this objective.
A
partnership accord between the ministry of public works and the ministry of
higher education was signed in Yaoundé to ensure that Cameroonian students in
both public and private higher professional institutions of learning can be
directly integrated to supplement the labor force necessary for the realization
of public contracts such as roads and other construction works.
Signing
the agreement, the minister of public works Emmanuel NganouNjoumessi
appreciated the initiative which according to him will provide a suitable
platform for students to perfect the knowledge acquired in the classrooms and
to bring them into direct contact with professional challenges well ahead of
time. In this regard, interested students will be granted the opportunity to
undertake capacity building programs at long or short term depending on the
students’ schedule and the available projects.
For
his part, the minister of higher education Jacques Fame Ndongo, while signing
the partnership agreement noted that with this and other recent measures taken
so far to empower youths in higher institutions of learning, the rate of
unemployed among university graduates and other professional certificate
holders is expected to reduce. He reiterated the head of state’s ambition to
modernize higher education in Cameroon adding that the professionalization of
the system is a gradual process with many more measures still in the pipeline.
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