HTTC Bambili seeks more visibility

By Njodzefe Nestor in Bamenda

Nsamenang Augustine Bame

The Higher Teacher Training College, HTTC of the University of Bamenda in a bit to sale its programs and showcase what the school can offer is organizing a one day awareness building colloquium.
    Slated for Friday May 15, 2015 in Amphi 340 of the University of Bamenda, the colloquium will hold under the theme curricular implications of the profiles of applicants seeking admission into the Higher Teacher Training College, HTTC, Bambili.
    HTTC, Bambili which has as Director Prof. Nsamenang Augustine Bame is the mother school of the University of Bamenda.
    It was created in 1967 by Ministerial Decision No. 38 of September 13, 1967 as an annex of the Advanced Teacher Training College, ENS, Yaounde. In accordance with the text creating the school, three programs were opened.

    From September 1967 many developments took place in the school, the most significant of which was the ever increasing yearly intake and number of graduates the institution annually produced.
    Appreciating that ENSAB has come of age especially in terms of the student enrolment and the ever pressing need for higher learning opportunities in the region, the Minister of Higher Education, Prof. Jacques Fame Ndongo in 2009, through Ministerial Decision No. 000009/MINESUP/ of 27 March 2009 brought drastic reforms in  ENSAB. The institution was given a full fledged status with the creation of 18 departments integrating training for general and technical education teachers for secondary schools.
    Meanwhile following Decree No. 2010/372 of 14 December 2010 creating The University of Bamenda, ENSAB was divided into two professional Teacher Training Schools; Higher Teacher Training College (HTTC), to train teachers of Secondary General Education and Higher Technical Teacher Training College (HTTTC), to train teachers of Secondary Technical Education.