Bamenda:

10th batch of Special Needs Teacher Training College graduate

By Johnson Mbu in Bamenda

Graduating students of the 1st batch of trainees of the Inclusive Special Education Teacher Training College, Bamenda, with the acronym CISETTEP, have were last week handed their end of course certificates. This was during a graduation ceremony presided over by a representative of the NW governor’s office.

                 Placed under the theme: “Cameroon Inclusive Special Education Teacher Improvement Programme,” the CISETTEP graduation coincided with that of the 10th batch of the Special Needs Teacher Training Institute, ITCIG-SENTI, Bamenda that is managed by the same management board.

                Holding at the Bamenda Congress Hall, the dual ceremony guided by the theme: ‘partnering with the government in the professional training and development of general and inclusive Special Education human resource to meet the needs of Inclusive Education in Cameroon’, was chaired by the chief of economic, social and cultural affairs in the Northwest governor’s office, Nji Joseph.

                Speaking on the occasion, the students’ delegates from both institutions, ApiaseAtemba and BertilaKonyuy from SENTI and CISETTEP respectively, praised the New Deal Government for caring about the plight of the socially less privileged by providing them the opportunity to exploit their abilities.

                The principal of CISETTEP, Emmanuel Acheknew, lauded government’s efforts in creating awareness and facilitating the implementation of inclusive Education in Cameroon. He also hailed the propitious legal and operational framework set-up for the full implementation and realization of the scheme.

                An academic discourse on the topic, ‘the role of stakeholders in the implementation of inclusive education in Cameroon’, presented by four resource persons vizNjeatihDrusilia, Chick Sama, Manju Irene and AjeagahRosea won the applause of the crowd and laid bare the importance of inclusive education.

                Presenting the vision of the institutions and explaining why the adventure into a-little-known sector, the proprietress of the schools, Eugenia Urwick and the rector, Prof Einstein Anyi, noted that it was an answer to a need. They called on the stakeholders to add value to the vision and make the programme reachable by all and sundry.

                The governor’s representative, Nji Joseph, hailed the founders of the school, noting that the graduates from the school are making a wonderful impact in society.

“With your institution, the future of inclusive education is bright in Cameroon,” he said, urging the management of the school to move on slowly but surely.