Don't Spoil Our System Of Education

Professor Lambip Cornelius was dismissed from the post of Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea because he refused corruption from hierarchy. He is now the Vice Chancellor of Sun Moon University South Korea.

Can other Anglophones copy this example?  A teacher of Geology in CCAST Bambili complained to me that francophone student teachers on teaching practice are a disgrace to Anglophone education.

Hear him “sweep the board” saying is the statement of a francophone student teacher to students in class. When I asked him what they have done as this is happening he said “we have complained to the principal of CCAST, the principal inturn has written to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Bamenda but the Vice Chancellor responded saying that nothing can be done”. “That is the system” said the Vice Chancellor my friend told me.

A one million dollar question is “how did these students write and pass the competitive entrance examination into HTTTC or HTTC of The University of Bamenda”?

My friend said in their class of thirty four, twenty four admitted were francophones. All of them do not know the basic language of instruction which is English.

I know vivid Gabriel Godwe and others were francophones from the north of Cameroon admitted into the Major Seminary Bambui. When they first made me during the time I was rendering them services, they were unable to express themselves in English as well. But after just three years in the seminary I was the one who typed their dissertations all in English which were perfect.

All of them after studying for the first three years in the seminary spoke and wrote very good English.

Now there were times in the seminary when students were defending their dissertations. Can you imagine that a seminarian who went through a catholic primary school, minor seminary and now third year in the seminary could not say and do the sign of the cross?.

An Anglophone student during such stressy periods of dissertation defence was not able to say and do the sign of the cross ‘in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’.

When one is full of fear and stress because of an examination or defense, one can fail to do things rightly and this could be understandable.

But the many francophones entering the University of Bamenda and after postings to Anglophone schools teach in pidgin and some destroying the children with phrases like ‘sweep the board’, ‘writtam’ etc is something to be look keenly into.

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