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The Decentralisation of the Universities

Since the establishment of St. Joseph’s College Sasse in 1937 and the Cameroon Protestant College in Bali in 1949, young people have had to travel long distances from their homes to acquire secondary education. In the 1950s young people had to travel on foot from Wum and Nkambe, divisions in order to go to Sasse College if they were products of Catholic primary schools.

But even before that the uneven distribution of primary schools in the 1950s and coups 1960s placed tremendous strain on families which were forced to send their children to neighbouring villages where they had too be as boarding pupils in order to acquire primary education.

However, the population grew and primary schools became saturated, primary schools have now become ubiquitous. This has also been followed by secondary schools which are available to most communities making it unnecessary for young people to travel far from their villages in order to find a suitable secondary school. The availability of qualified teachers and the quality of second at education is still highly variable throughout the country but the infrastructure in terms of approved schools is there.

Notwithstanding the progress that has been made in primary and secondary education, there are significant problems persisting in tertiary education because the tertiary institutions are still based in a few large urban areas. The state universities as well as the private and religious universities are all based in a few urban centres.

For this reason, most students who have completed their secondary cycle have to move to an urban centre in order to attend a tertiary institution. The drift towards urban centers far from home villages places strain on families.

The urban migration for education is particularly risky for young girls who have great difficulty finding suitable and safe accommodation while studying in university. Many such vulnerable young female students easily drift into prostitution in order to support themselves and finance their education because their parents are in no position to cover the costs of their children studying far away from home.

In the future the educational formula shall be changed so that instead of young people leaving home to go to university, the university shall come to our children. The universities shall be brought much closer to the secondary schools in the various counties. This shall be achieved by decentralising the two state universities: The University of Bamenda and the University of Buea. Campuses and faculties shall be established in different counties, but they shall all be linked to the central campus by optical fiber.

The transformational impact of this decentralisation plan on the economy of the Southern Cameroons shall be profound by 2030 because experience has shown that whenever educational establishments are brought closer to people, more people become educated.

Dr. Nfor N Susungi
Group Head Economy

4 comments
  1. This is absolutely true and will really help speed up our development in all ways.

    This is a crucial step for if all our people know they can easily access university education there will be more investment in the primary and secondary.

    The most important thing is, it will drastically reduce the knowledge gap between the different layers of society and thus bring us closer. This is exactly what every successful nation did.

  2. Lord and behold..i just came back from work and was thinking about the decentralisation of universitiuniversities in southern Cameroon. To my greatest dismay it was the very first issue on my Twitter page from Mark Barra..This is forward thinking. This will have a tremendous change and will bring huge competition within our educational system. It’s indeed a good thing. Let’s win the separation struggle and start building a better future for the youngster.
    God is with us.

  3. A lot of focus will be on the ‘de-Frenchisation’ of our system. Our Southern Cameroon use of English has been so corrupted that all our drivers cannot name car documents in English. It spread wide in all areas. While we cannot shelve French language as a study course (subject), our official language shall be English which shall be properly taught by well trained teachers. Thanks for your developmental blueprints, Nfor Susungi.

  4. Those who are old eniugh to know the culture
    Of southern cameroons.must never betray this culture with the foreign french central african
    World view. Messages and write ups must be in
    Anglosaxon southern cameroons tradition or these would be bad but destructive.decentralizatiin.marginal7zation.formation. are all french central africans monitony which presuppose that we are a part of their system which we are not.we are different.we thinks different because we have a different world view.the better world view. No body should be focus on any thing in parts to improve.since all are tied up to the fact that power to any change rest in the hands of a foreign occupierie cameroun republic.whose agenda is to destroy as such if you are frim dschang or an english speak8ng camerounese
    We dont expect you to make any contribution what so ever.since yours is only destructive if implenented..southern cameroonians themselves must first seize total control of their republic.and only them should develope their country. Just like every African independent state.

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