As GCE Exams kick-off Monday:

Mission Schools have accepted to open their gates

-Says GCE Board authorities

Registrar of GCE Board, Humphrey EkemaMonono

The Board Chair of the Cameroon GCE Board, prof. Peter Abety has said proprietors of confessional schools have accepted to open their doors to candidates seating the 2017 sessions of examinations organized by the board. He was speaking at the end of an in-camera council meeting held in Buea

                During the council meeting, two items featured on the agenda: to examine the administrative and management account for the year 2016 and to assess the level of preparedness for the 2017 session of examination with the decision from MINESEC readjusting the examination Calender.

                According to the Registrar of the GCE Board, Humphrey Monono, the practical examinations will begin on Monday 15 May 2017 while the written part starts on 12 June 2017. Candidates’ lists are already available at the various centers and we are encouraging them to consult the lists for possible corrections, he said.

                It should be noted that some few changes have been made by the Board to see to it that security of candidates is guaranteed. All afternoon papers will begin at 1 pm and no longer at 2pm for security purposes.

                “We want examinations to begin early in the afternoon and close when it is still day time to give the candidates enough time to go home and prepare for the next day," the Registrar said.

                On his part, GCE Board Chair, Prof. Peter Abety observed that one of the major preoccupations of the GCE Board which has been the fate of candidates in confessional schools is no longer of top priority as these schools have accepted to host candidates.

                "We are very happy to inform the general public that schools run by Catholics, Protestants and Islamic denominations have assured us that they are preparing to call back their candidates to write the examinations at the various centers."

                With all these hindrances that have affected students in the SW and NWRs of the country, one is left wondering if certificates will be valid this year. However, according to some government officials, students need not worry as their certificates will be recognized in and out of the country.

                It should be noted that the crisis which has become known as the Anglophone crisis started on 21 November 2016 with Anglophone teachers demanding amongst others, the transfer of French speaking teachers who have no mastery of the English language from Anglophone schools amongst others.