Convocation Ceremony:

696 Teachers Graduate from HTTTC Kumba

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Newly Matriculated students pose with VC, HTTTC Director and others

The Higher Technical Teachers Training College, HTTTC Kumba has recently sent out 696 teachers. This was during the convocation ceremony at the Kumba Amusement Park on February 3, 2018 presided over by the Pro-Chancellor, Prof. Ako Oben Edward deputizing for the Minister of higher Education. 

                In his address to the graduates comprising both the first and second cycle teachers he urged all and sundry to uphold the values of technical education, be professional in all they do and to be true ambassadors of peace and unity.

                Prof. Ako Oben also told his hearers comprising of all the who is who of the University of Buea who had turned out for the convocation ceremony, Meme elites, MPs, Senators, Meme administration and the population that government has set aside a huge investment package in the University’s 2018 budget for the construction of the permanent site of the HTTTC Kumba at Mambanda and Mukonje respectively. He harped on the importance government attaches to the training of technical school teachers in all its disciplines.

                On his part the Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea, Prof. Horace Ngomo Manga noted that the creation of the HTTTC Kumba will in no distant time help close the gap that the country faces in the domain of technical education. He stressed that the 696 teachers have all undergone the rigorous training and are ripe for the job market.

                Dr. Churchill Monono invited as guest speaker to the event in an elaborate presented drilled and inspired the students on various means through which they can make their mark in the teaching profession and change the lives of many as well as the nation. The event was punctuated with lots of traditional dances and signing.

                Prior to the convocation ceremony was the matriculation ceremony of the newly admitted student teachers. In the occasion, the Vice Chancellor Prof. Horace Ngomo Manga cautioned the newly admitted to shun social distractions from the town of Kumba and take studies serious. He also pleaded on the population of Kumba to be hospitable to the students who he revealed are making their first stay in Kumba as the institution looks forward to construction of student residential areas in the future.