ASMAC : Board Members Discuss Future Of Institution

The Minister of Communication, Rene Emmanuel Sadi, has reiterated the need for a revision of the organisational structure and the modernisation of the academic infrastructure of the Advanced School of Mass Communication (ASMAC), 50 years after its creation. He was speaking yesterday, April 24, 2024 during the third ordinary session of the Board of Council of the institution. The session is holding at the school premises 14 years after the last one. 
Opening the session, Minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi, who is also the Executive Board Chairman of the Council said 50 years after the creation of the institution, ASMAC, which was first called the Yaounde International School of Journalism dubbed ESIJY in the French Language, has undergone significant changes. The most important is integration into the national university system through its affiliation to the University of Yaounde II-Soa in 1993. This was followed by the creation of four other training courses, Publishing, Public Relations, which later became Organisational Communication, Advertising and Documentation now subdivided into two sub-departments: Documentary Information and Archive. This, in addition to the Department of Journalism, which was instituted at its birth in 1970. The Minister also noted that the curriculum of the institution has been fundamentally overhauled. From three divisions, Division One; training Assistant Journalists, Division II for General Journalists and Division III for Specialist Journalists, to the Licence, Master, Doctorate (LMD) system. Over the years, Minster Sadi explained that ASMAC has transformed in order to meet with the demands of its environment and the technological and professional changes faced in the communication sector around the world. In doing so, the school has substantially increased its capacity to attract students in and out of the country each year.  
From 75 students upon its creation, the school now has over 1,700 students divided between the different fields. With such changes, members of the Board of ASMAC saw the need to make sure the school is able to rise above its challenges. This is why the Council Members reviewed decree No. 82/404 of 04 September 1982 creating and organis...