HIPDET University Cameroon

Creating Partnerships and offering opportunities to the underprivileged

Dr  Parveen Ngum  Neba, the Rector of HIPDET University, Cameroon has intimated, that the Higher Institute for Professional Training and  Development has as one of its objectives, to make education available to the needy.

The institution is implanted in a couple of cities across the National Territory and has made it possible for quality study facilities to be available at very affordable rates to the dominantly Internally Displaced students that presently flood the North West and South West Regions of the country.  This Scholarship Scheme is timely as it comes at a time when those in need are aplenty.

She said the main purpose of HIPDET was to empower the younger ones with the necessary skills needed to take care of their lives. HIPDET started in 2009 with Vocational Training. In 2015 the founder Mr Jean Vingala decided to include HND Programmes in the initiative. In 2019 the Ministry of Higher Education recognised it as a full institution and more recently an Mou was signed with the University of Bamenda to run degree programmes and subsequently Master degree Programmes.

HIPDET is found  in Limbe where they concentrate mostly on Biomedical Sciences. HIPDET is also found in Douala at Bonaberri and in Yaounde. There is also a Campus in Bertoua but the main Campus is in Bamenda where the initiative started specifically at Mile Four in Nkwen at the Health Center Junction where undergraduate programmes take place. There is a second campus in Bamenda at S-Bend Nkwen specifically at the Blue Pearl Hotel premises where the Post Graduate Programmes will be taking place.

Under the mentorship of the University of Bamenda HIPDET will be offering B-Tech programmes, BSc and subsequently Master degree programmes.

HIPDET has Nursing Care Programmes that run for a month that is being offered by a University in the USA for any HIPDET student that wants to travel and is interested in Nursing. HIPDET also has  MBA programmes in eight specialties that they run in collaboration with a University in the US. This programme runs for two years. Students study in Cameroon for a year and then proceed to do the second year in the United States if they so desire.

In collaboration with the Saint Anthony Catholic University in Spain HIPDET offers 12 one year MBA programmes. Students put in One semester in Cameroon and the second semester in Spain.

The institution offers Higher National Diplomas in Hospitality and Management which run for two years and is offered by an international institute in Switzerland.

The institution also offers Bachelor and Masters Programmes in Nursing and Medical Laboratory Sciences, Pharmacy, Public Health and Medicine. These programmes which run from Four to seven years are offered by the RUND University in Russia.

Against a backdrop of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, HIPDET has launched a scholarship scheme for orphans, the underprivileged and the Internally Displaced. These scholarships are offered at the HND, Bachelor and Master degree levels. In the graduation ceremony of the institution that just took place, scholarships were doled out to HND students and BSc students as well. “We call on students to benefit from these scholarships being offered by HIPDET” the Rector said.

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

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