2018 public exams in NW & SW:

Internet shutdown may mar online registration of GCE 

But GCE board says there shall be no room for late registration after December 29 deadline

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

School authorities in Meme and Ndian divisions of the Southwest regions have said that the lack of internet access will hinder the online-registration  of students planning to sit the 2018 session of examinations organized by the GCE board. They made the disclosure recently after attending a sensitization meeting organized by the GCE board on the campus of CCAS Kumba on Monday November 13 2017.

            To these heads of schools, the online registration which was aimed to ease the tedious task of registering candidates manually may now be marred by the discriminate restriction of internet access in the Northwest and Southwest regions of the country.

            To the schools authorities the online system eases the work needed in the registration process and helps reduce the number of errors made on the registration forms in the process of registration.

            The schools officials indicated it is imperative for their students to begin adapting themselves to the online system since higher institutions of learning and state universities also use it in their admission process.

            The sensitization meeting was in a bid to help reduce the irregularities that were noticed in the registration of candidates for the 2016/2017 examinations organized by the Cameroon General Certificate of Education, CGCE board.

            Officials of the GCE board also used the sensitization meeting to send a grim message to prospective candidates that there shall be no extension of the registration deadline for the 2018 GCE.

            The delegation of officials from the Board was headed by the Board’s Technical Director, Horace Lenya.

            The sensitization meeting brought together officials from all secondary/high schools in Meme and Ndian divisions.

            It emerged from the meeting that following the GCE Registrar’s prescription, registration for prospective candidates for the 2018 GCE started since Wednesday 1 November and will end on Friday 29 December 2017. No registration will be allowed after this deadline.