Paffe Nungu Jackaline Kenye, the Regional Pedagogic Adviser for Primary Education at the Regional Delegation of Basic Education for the Northwest Region has complained that there is a lot of sabotage and propaganda by schools with buildup to the kick off of the 2016-2017 Academic year slated for September 6. Though an administrator, she is equally the proprietress and Founder of Model Inclusive Bilingual Complex which has a nursery and Primary practicing school. The complex also runs a Bilingual Teacher Training Institute which she refers to as the model of Inclusive Education in Cameroon.
Speaking to
this reporter at the weekend in Bamenda, she said what made Model Inclusive
Bilingual Complex Bamenda special was the fact that the school has all types of
children from different groups included in the same classrooms. The teachers who
manage these different categories of children in the same classroom are equally
inclusive she said.
Commenting on
the tendency for clandestine schools to insistently stay on despite all the
efforts put in to put an end to this phenomenon, she said parents go out there to schools without knowing if these schools are authorized
by the Minister. She explained that in Basic Education for example, they usually
come out with a list of authorized schools and that list is published and
announced through radio stations. Immediately schools reopen, they again go out
for the monitoring of school re-opening in all the Divisions in the Northwest
Region. It is after monitoring, that
they come out with the list of schools that have not been authorized to
function. At this stage she said “we then form a team involving the Police, the
Divisional Officers and move out to close the unauthorized schools.”
Decrying the existence
of clandestine schools, she said these establishments are harboring children
who are all Cameroonians. “We need to know what they are doing and if they are
respecting the programme from the ministry. We need to know if they are secured
and if the people running the schools are qualified. We have been following up this issue of
clandestine schools and this year will not be different.”
Asked if the establishments that she ran were shining examples of
legalized schools she said “as part of the team implementing policy in the
region, I cannot run an unauthorized school. My Schools are authorized. The
Model Inclusive Bilingual Nursery and Primary School was authorized on the 4th
of September 2012 and the school is receiving subventions from the Government.
A school which is not authorized cannot receive subvention from the government.
Secondly, the teacher training institute which came to supplement this primary
school is also authorized. It was authorized on the 8th of September
2015 by the Minister of Secondary Education, Louis Bapez Bapez at the time.
That authorization was for the creation and now we’ve had an authorization
given by the present Minister of Secondary Education which was signed on the 14th
of January 2016. This year, the Ministry of Secondary Education has sent the
names of authorized schools in the North West Region and the maximum number of
children to train. The name of Model Inclusive School came from the Ministry to
the Delegation of Secondary Education.”
The cause of this problem
is that many people jump into education with a business mind intended to
experiment a new line of business she said adding that before getting into this
branch of education, she studied in three universities in London, Czech
Republic and Fontis University in Holland. “From Fontis University I had a
Master Degree in Inclusive Education. I was equally trained by the Cameroonian
Government as an Inspector from Higher Teacher Training College ENS Yaounde where
I did English Modern Letters and Sciences of Education. We were trained as
Administrators. I first of all worked in the Teacher Training College for eight
years before being appointed as Divisional Pedagogic Adviser where I worked for
three years. Presently I am the Regional Pedagogic Adviser for Primary
Education.”
She said the only
expert advice she could give Parents was that the best place to get
information from is at the Delegations. Parents she said simply needed to go to
the Delegation of Secondary Education and ask for the list of authorized
schools. Hear her, “don’t listen to
individuals because there is a lot of sabotage going on and propaganda that
people make about their schools. This is because there is competition in
business and some people have a coward’s attitude in the way they face this
competition. Parents should not listen to individuals but should rather go to
the various delegations linked to education and ask for the list of authorized
schools.”
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