Industrial Technical Education : Gov’t Launches Project To Draft Textbooks

Secondary Education Minister, Nalova Lyonga Pauline Egbe, has launched the exercise of preparing textbooks for the first cycle of Industrial Technical Secondary Education in the country. During the training workshop to launch the project yesterday, May 9, 2019 in Yaounde, Nalova Lyonga said it was part of the continuation of the many initiatives undertaken at the Ministry of Secondary Education regarding the urgent restructuring facing the technical education sector in the country’s. 

Speaking to participants, the Minister of Secondary Education said it was no news the present educational system in Cameroon was no longer in line with the real and ever-changing needs of the workplace. As such, new training curricula for students in the first cycle of Industrial Technical Education had been drawn up in accordance with the Competence-Based Approach (CBA).

Nalova Lyonga said since the government has opted for a policy of liberalisation, the publishers of Technical and Vocational Secondary Education textbooks, most of whom are based abroad, have very little interest in the Cameroonian book market at this level of education. In addition, the contents of the technical work proposed by some of these publishers are generally out of touch with the contents of the training standards applicable in the national territory. 

Consequently, the reason for the training workshop to respond to the urgent need to develop an internal publication supply to meet the need of official lists of textbooks for Techn...