The First Assistant Senior Divisional Officer for Donga-Mantung and the Divisional Delegate for Secondary Education have told college Principals to check recalcitrant teachers and forward their files to hierarchy for appropriate sanctions. Both administrators spoke recently during a coordination meeting organised by the Divisional Delegation.

According to the 1st Assistant SDO, the poor results recorded during the last academic year were largely due to notorious absenteeism and the nonchalance of some teachers. He promised hard times to teachers and even heads of institutions who would be found wanting in the execution of their duties.

Besides, the SDO called on the Principals to shun laxity, laziness, corruption and other malpractices that could deter academic work. He, nevertheless, praised the pedagogues for their in-exhaustive efforts towards nation building while appealing to teachers and Principals to be of good example in their various institutions and communities.

In the same vein, the Divisional Delegate of Secondary Education , Cletus Njobe Kimbi, lamented that the 5.02 percent drop in the performances at the end of course examinations was due to laisez-faire in most of the institutions. He called on them to tighten up; follow up their teachers and report promptly to hierarchy.

He also warned that some of the school heads who are irregular in school and are reported to hierarchy shall also face the music. While chastising those schools that performed too poor at end of course examinations, the Delegate praised those with excellent results, begging on all to revise their strategies for better results.

Earlier on, in her welcome speech, the Mayor of Nkambe, represented by one of his Deputies, Mrs. Ajara, prayed for cooperation among the school heads, their collaborators and parents. She observed that Cameroon’s successful emergence in 2035 lies much on the teachers’ hard work.

The Regional Pedagogic Inspectors from Bamenda from the Department of School Life in paper presentations, focused on school projects, school insurance, internal rules and regulations and sports and physical education. On technical education, they highlighted the new reforms in industrial technical education.

The Divisional Pedagogic Adviser for Technical education, Taniform, disclosed that 5,712 candidates sat for the various end of course examinations and 2,436 passed, scoring a percentage of 52.57 as against 58.01, recording a drop of 5.44percent. He exploited some of the causes of the poor results, while proffering solutions. He blamed the students, teachers, school administration, Government and parents for the poor results.

Handling Counselling in school, Frankline Arrey of the Department of School Mapping and Orientation said most teachers shy away from teaching sex education because of shame and fear, beside its complex nature. He then drilled participants in the methods of approach of giving students sex education.

The Divisional Delegate of Basic Education, Agnes Afor, appreciated the steam in the deliberations. She approved of the collaboration imperatives between basic and secondary education.

On behalf of the retired school administrators present, Augustine Nfor Mangeh, one time Divisional Delegate of Secondary Education in Donga-Mantung, praised the Principals and their teachers for the marvelous job they were putting up for the growth of education in the Division and for meeting up with new reforms.