Textbooks for Classes Three, Four : Evaluation Committee Begins Selection Process

Members of the National Council for the Approval of Textbooks and Didactic Materials are currently in their 19th session to evaluate textbooks for Classes Three and Four, primary pupils in Cameroon. The session which began yesterday February 15, 2021 is aimed at selecting the best textbooks for Classes Three and Four Primary school pupils to be used during the next school year as adopted in the new pedagogic approach. 
While opening the session, the Minister of Basic Education, Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa, called on members of the Council to effectively carryout their duty in ensuring that Cameroonians have high quality books that are affordable. He also used the occasion to encourage and appreciate the results already obtained by the committee. Progressively, the Minister said “we are moving towards a textbook policy that is environment-free from problems, as it was known before.  Nowadays, we hear little or no problem as far as textbooks provision is concerned in the primary school section.”  
A similar process to select books for the Nursery section, classes One and Two, took place last year according to the new curriculum which hinges on Competence-Based Approach (CBA). Next year, the process of changing text books for primary schools will end with the selection of books for Classes Five and Six. At the end, the Permanent Secretary of the National Council for the Approval of Textbooks and Didactic Materials said all old textbooks will be replaced by books that fit into the CBA pedagogic programme.  
The evaluators selected by the Ministry of Basic Education and other experts specialized in the appreciation and selection of books, will evaluate all books proposed by publishers who are mostly Cameroonians from the Anglophone regions of the country.  At the beginning of the session w...