Actualités of Thursday, 25 September 2014

Source: Cameroon Tribune

Insufficient teachers jeopardizing sch. schedule

Because of the shortage in teachers, certain teachers find themselves teaching 21 hours lectures per week. "In my department, we treat all subjects every day which is not normal.

Moreover, since the beginning of the classes, we find a new time table each morning. And it practically creates clashes between colleagues, because the first who arrives in a class occupies it and gives lectures", explains a teacher.

"The texts of the ministry for secondary Educations provide that the administrative persons in charge have four or six hours of course, according to their stations of responsibility. But with us, the headmaster refused, thus worsening the pressure on the teachers in the classrooms", our source revealed.

The problem is general and affects almost all the publicly-owned establishments in Yaounde. Lycée technique Charles Atangana, the department of sport, inter alia, is almost in crisis. Four teachers only, for 55 classrooms "Each one of us is compelled to have 18 hours of course per week and we have a lesson every day.