University of Douala’s new rector receives roadmap

The tasks of the new Rector of the University of Douala, François Xavier Etoa, officially installed on September 22, 2015, are precise and extensive.

According to specifications set out by the Minister of Higher Education, Jacques Fame Ndongo, during the popular ceremony, “there is need to continue the building projects started by his predecessors, following the requirements of the policy for the development of the sector.”

In the order of presentation as concerns the material tasks, there was the continuation of the construction of infrastructure and expansion of the University campus.

Logbessou and its Faculty of Industrial Engineering, l’Ecole normale de l’enseignement technique, the recent two faculties of medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, are among the priorities of the University.

For building and enriching the work of six rectors since 1993, the new captain of the University in the business city has been called on to strictly manage the men and goods. Already mobilized by the outgoing Rector Dieudonne Oyono, teachers, administrative staff and students are engaged on the path of a successful collaboration with the professional world.

At the top of his assignment was an agreement with Gicam, labour movement, which opens the University to some 250 enterprises and a digital library. The requirement to adapt to the teachings at the request of the real world including labour and ICT is not to be compromised.

In this light, there is even more: the University must create an enterprise on its own initiative, to move to a future where the authorities want to close the infusion of subsidies.

Financial autonomy is a major objective as well as the full implementation of the LMD system in relation to academic mobility, work-linked training as an example.
Thus drawing the roadmap of the Rector Etoa needs community participation in a subject where Dieudonne Oyono called on the University, Douala administrations and all those who helped him during the three years of his stay, for the benefit of the new boss.