The Minister of Post and Telecommunication Jean Pierre Biyati- bi Essam , has announced the relaunching of competitive entrance exams into all cycles of the Buea post and Telecommunications School in the months ahead. He was presenting an address at the Board of Governors, meeting of the Yaoundé and Buea post and Telecommunication schools June 28 at the Buea campus.According to the minister, the two–year suspension of the entry exams was occasioned by the lack of laboratory materials which would not permit the take-off of cycle B technical training in Buea . He recalled that the Board of Governors had decided to completely transfer cycle B to the Buea campus but this transfer has only been effected in the postal sector.

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Members of the Steering Committee of the Support Programme for the Technological and Professional Components of Higher Education in Cameroon met last  June 11 at the Yaounde Djeuga Palace Hotel in an extraordinary session to evaluate the ground covered so far by the first phase of the 2007-2012 programme.
At the end of the brainstorming exercise, they all agreed that before the first phase of the programme fades out in 2012, it must have been extended to other higher education institutions in the country to stimulate the desired effects. Presiding over the session, Minister of Higher Education, Jacques Fame Ndongo, who is chair of the steering committee said that Cameroon is resolutely determined to make sure that her qualified human resources get the necessary technological and professional training in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

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The Goverment Delegate to the Kumba City Council, Victor Ngoh Nkelle, has embarked on a reach-out science project to schools in Kumba. On Friday May 28 the Gov’t Delegate led a delegation to donate a consignment of laboratory equipment worth FCFA four million five hundred thousand francs to some colleges. The beneficiary colleges include GHS Kake, GBHS Kossala and GBSS Mambanda. While handing over the laboratory equipment to the principals of the colleges in separate occasions in their various schools, the Gov’t Delegate encouraged both teachers and students to use the equipment judiciously in order to promote sciences in their respective schools. read more...

The future has been brightened for holders of the Higher National Diploma in Journalism as they can now pursue studies in Masters and PhD at the Siantou University Complex. This follows the sealing of a partnership deal between the Siantou University in Yaounde and the Kinshasa-based Faculty Institute of Information Science and Communication better known through its French acronym as IFASIC (Institut Facultaire des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication de Kinshasa), last  December 2, 2009 in Yaounde. The news was made public by the President Director General of Siantou University Complex, Wantou Siantou Lucien after signing the accord on behalf of his institution. Mr.Jean-Lucien Kitima Kasendwe, Rector of IFASIC was on hand to sign the South-South Partnership Accord for his school.

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Some 1000 university students last January 12 staged a march in Yaounde to thank President Paul Biya for the FCFA Three billion bursary he promised to best students of the country’s seven state universities during his end-of-year message. The students marched from the 20 May Boulevard through the Central Post Office to the Ministry of Higher Education chanting and praising the Head of State for the gesture. It was a gratifying moment for the President considering the tense relationship that had hitherto existed between university students and the President since following the suspension of scholarships and the introduction of  school fees in the early 90s.The FCFA 3 billion grant to observers is “part of the CPDM campaign strategy” to send students out to campaign for the president in 2011.

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