Secondary Education: school syllabuses revised

A seminar to adopt the draft syllabuses of study for 6e, 5e, and Form I and Form II ended in Mbalmayo on August 5.

Improving the level of Cameroonian youths and facilitating their access to decent employment or higher studies is a major priority of government.

It is in this light that a two-day seminar to adopt the draft syllabuses of study for the French language in Form I and Form II and English language in 6e and 5e classes ended in Mbalmayo in the Centre Region.

Speaking at the closing, the Minister of Secondary Education, Louis Bapes Bapes, said the syllabuses have been revised in order to make them more practical and closer to the children.

He called on pedagogic inspectors concerned as well as their colleagues in the regions to ensure the effective implementation of the new syllabuses at the kick-off of the 2014-2015 academic year throughout the national territory in all classes of 6e and Form I.

The new syllabuses of study for 6e, 5e, Form I and Form II are 26 in all; 13 syllabuses for the Francophone sub-system and 13 for the Anglophone sub-system.

The innovations in these syllabuses are that they take real-life situations and how these could be used to develop the main language skills per domain in life; develop the competence in the learner to interact autonomously verball or in writing in real-life problem-solving situations.

It also resulted in the drafting of a Teachers’ Guide in which a variety of activities that will facilitate teachers’ handling of learning skills of students, among others. The subjects fall under the purview of the Inspectorate Pedagogy in charge of the Teaching and promotion of Bilingualism.

These syllabuses have been totally overhauled and revised following the competence-based approach through real life situations under the direct supervision of the Inspectorate General of Education.

The syllabuses were drafted by national pedagogic inspectors in conformity with standard norms and with the collaboration of actors. Minister Louis Bapes Bapes also launched the seminar on the writing of the syllabuses of 4e and Form III.