MTN Foundation rewards best teachers

The First edition of the National Competition to select the Best Teachers in Using Integrated Computer Technologies (ICTS) in secondary schools which started in May for the academic year 2013-2014, has ended.

At the award ceremony that took place at the Government Technical High school, Nkolbison, Yaounde last Wednesday October 8, the results of the competition showed remarkable performances from the ten teachers chosen from each High school representing the ten regions of Cameroon, with the last scoring up to 75% from the south (D.POKAM) and the first from the West (TCHAKOUANG M.) who scored 91%, which, in line with the standard Grade Points Average, is excellent.

This first edition is organized within the framework of a fruitful partnership that collates the MTN Foundation and the Ministry of Secondary Education also known as MINESEC, and it equally marks the beginning of an annual event, to pay homage to the Ministry of Secondary Education, in recognition of the admirable role played by teachers as pillars of the nation, for the development of human capital both among themselves and the young, make teaching more competitive through the teachings of science and technology, among others, in an era of integrated computer technologies.

The Executive Secretary M.AKAM with recipient. According to professor NJOh Mouelle Ebenezer, an MTN trustee who addressed the occasion “since 2005, matter of fact, the MTN FOUNDATION has been contributing alongside government authorities to improve the living standards of the population by investing in the domains of education, health and “rural development’’, but you know what “education is the priority of priorities of the MTN FOUNDATION and devotes 70 % of it’s budget here”.

The competition also had some major goals such as, to instill healthy emulation amongst secondary school teachers without discriminating the discipline or field in the use of ICTS; drive in or sink in the taste for research in innovative, teaching method and contribute to meet the objectives of quality education.

According to the Executive Secretary Jean Melvin Akam of the MTN Foundation “we are an essential bedmate in enforcing government national policy through access for all to quality education .Through this competition both parties reaffirm the teacher’s role as the cornerstone of our education system. The best teacher competition is an initiative that gives him the place and dignity he deserves in society with the objective to capacitate their development and growth."

The jury was chaired by the Inspector Coordinator of Pedagogy in charge of computer science MINESC, 2 members of MTN FOUNDATION and 2 members of MINESEC, while the Minister of Secondary Education published the results in a release dated September 18, 2014. The recipients each received a laptop and a modern and free internet access for 12 months.