Fostering Academic Excellence : GCE Board Equipped With Special Need Exam Tools

The Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services (CBCHS) has taken a special interest to ensure that examination candidates with special needs or impairments are not left behind in matters of acquiring, grading and using knowledge. After a donation of an Everest-V4 Braille Embosser machine to facilitate large-scale production of exam questions for candidates with visual impairment in 2010, Professor Tih Pius Muffih, Director of the CBC Health Services, was again at the GCE Board in Buea last weekend (3 March 2022) to offer another advanced Everest-DV5 Braille embosser and the Everest Acoustic Hood.
Experts present the Everest-DV5 as the most versatile Braille embosser (writer) in the market taking Braille in any format on cut sheet paper. It equally has modern features of Wi-Fi connection Bluetooth, embossing from USB memory braille printing from mobile devices. With its Braille App, the machine can emboss 400 A4 pages per hour, high resolution tactile graphics, automatic booklet format with horizontal and vertical printing options.
Meanwhile, the Everest Acoustic Hood provides a cost-effective solution for housing the natural noise made when embossing Braille. It provides 90 per cent noise reduction. The CBCHS equally put at the disposal of the GCE Board a high level technical team of experts to give orientation on purposeful use and management of the state-of-the-arts equipment. The CBCHS had, in the past, also gone further to refurbish and equip GCE writing centres including BHS Buea, GBHS Bamenda, Lycee Classique de Bafoussam with support from Liliane Foundation in the Netherlands. Even more intensive...