The 75th session of the National Commission of Evaluation (CNE) was held Friday April 3, in Yaoundé.

This institution was established to control and verify the authenticity of certificates acquired by students who go to study abroad. It was in this light that the commission drew the curtains on the fourth session under its 2014 roadmap on Friday in Yaoundé.

Through this exercise which has become a tradition, experts are engaged to scrutinize all the certificates obtained abroad by Cameroonian students to ascertain its validity. They also use the platform to find their equivalence in the Cameroonian academic system with the aim of fishing out fake certificates.

During this ceremony presided over by the Secretary-General of the Ministry of higher education Horace Ngomo Manga, it was recalled that this tradition called to scrutinize the value and authenticity of diplomas obtained abroad or in international schools on the one hand and to take a decision on the recognition of foreign schools on the other hand".

During the exercise, out of the 259 files examined, the CNE detected three fake certificates, evidence that its members have treated these numerous cases brought to their attention with objectivity, rigour and transparency.

In the Minesup, it is a matter of justice and fairness. "Each time some students provide false information, mentioning universities that sometimes are non-existant in the country," he asserted.

This evaluation is thus carried out to fish out culprits and combat intellectual cheating. Minesup is responsible to check all information on students who go abroad to study on their own and successfully graduate", says an official of the Minesup.

The Sg of the Minesup however noted that "only candidates holding an equivalence of the national diploma required, issued by the CNE are allowed to take part in the national competition".