120 Lecturers Assume Duty

One hundred and twenty lecturers of the 166 that were recently recruited by the Ministry of Higher Education and posted to The University of Bamenda, UBa, had picked up certificates of assumption of duty at the institution. Professor Emmanuel Suh Cheo, Deputy Vice Chancellor in Charge of Teaching, Professionalisation and Implementation of New Technologies and Information and Communication Technologies, told CT after a Council of the University of Bamenda meeting January 10, 2020, that the new lecturers have been taken into account for salary purposes in the 2020 budget of UBa and have also already been assigned courses.
“It is our hope that they come in and we run a series of training seminars and workshops to bring them up to speed so that they can deliver their own share of what is expected of them,” he said, noting “Ninety of them have already taken up their assumption of duty certificates, so the remaining are showing up; today alone, 30 others have shown up but have not taken their certificate of assumption of duty because they either forgot one or two original documents.” 
With a student population of 17,250 (including 7,000 freshmen at all levels this academic year), UBa being the largest State university with 12 faculties and schools there is yet need for more lecturers. Before the special recruitment of 2,000 university lecturers in which the UBa has the highest number, there were over 250 lecturers. In this first phase, the University was expecting to receive 132 lecturers and assistant lecturers but was privileged to receive rather an addition of up 166 to its delight. These new teaching staff have been assign...