Curbing campus malpractices:

Y’de II University Adopts Ethics, Deontology Reference Book

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaounde

Officials of the University of Yaounde II, Soa and other higher institutions of learning affiliated to it have adopted a code of ethics and deontology reference book to help check malpractices including fraud, corruption and indiscipline within the institution.
    The reference document was adopted Tuesday 4 August 2020 during a meeting chaired by the Rector, Prof. Adolf Minkoa She.
    The Rector in the course of the ceremony to adopt the document said the code book will enable the higher institution to go back to its fundamental principles of liberty, integrity and responsibility. He promised an imminent procurement of a software to check the strict implementation of the guidelines by both officials and students.  
    The ethics book consist four chapters subdivided into 45 sections. It tackles the fundamental principles of ethics and deontology, the rights and duties of all actors in the University milieu, the rules and regulations in force and the action plan to implement.
    “It is very important to lay ground rules for a given community like ours…we are now going to have deontological and ethical rules that will guide us in the way we conduct our day-to-day business, be it in academic field, relationship between teachers and students,” said the Vice Rector, Prof. Edmond Biloa. He added that the document will play a fundamental role in restoring order in the institution.
    The adoption of the code book comes on the heels of a recent circular from the Minister of Higher Education, Prof. Jacques Fame Ndongo in which he ordered all universities in the country to respect the rules of ethics, administrative and academic deontology. It follows the breaching of certain codes ethics and deontology within the universities milieu which has led to corruption, promiscuity, plagiarism, fraud and other vices.