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International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education
The 1993 Higher Education Reforms and the 1995 National Forum on Education, brought remarkable ch... more The 1993 Higher Education Reforms and the 1995 National Forum on Education, brought remarkable changes in the provision of advanced education in Cameroon. The 1993 Reforms produced six public universities and greatly emphasized on the need to orientate university education towards professionalisation. Though the reform emphasized on professionalisation, the newly created Universities did not quickly adjust their programmes to address the need of attenuating post-secondary schooling youth unemployment. It is in this context that, this paper drawing from primary and secondary sources and employing a descriptive-analytical approach, examines the seemingly grey training domains that private higher education promoters appropriated and the extent to which they aligned their functioning with the statutory norms of the Cameroon Ministry of Higher education. The paper argues that private higher education institutions of learning that developed in Cameroon's North West and South West Regions predominantly observing somewhat Anglo-Saxon education principles set out among other business interest, to fill the void created by the absence of professional oriented fields of study in public universities. In the course of reaching this end, some of the institutions for different motivations dishonoured the statutory regulations thereby abusing the confidence assigned on them by the state to serve as intermediate auxiliaries to offer quality education geared towards containing the amplification of youth unemployment.
International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education
The 1993 Higher Education Reforms and the 1995 National Forum on Education, brought remarkable ch... more The 1993 Higher Education Reforms and the 1995 National Forum on Education, brought remarkable changes in the provision of advanced education in Cameroon. The 1993 Reforms produced six public universities and greatly emphasized on the need to orientate university education towards professionalisation. Though the reform emphasized on professionalisation, the newly created Universities did not quickly adjust their programmes to address the need of attenuating post-secondary schooling youth unemployment. It is in this context that, this paper drawing from primary and secondary sources and employing a descriptive-analytical approach, examines the seemingly grey training domains that private higher education promoters appropriated and the extent to which they aligned their functioning with the statutory norms of the Cameroon Ministry of Higher education. The paper argues that private higher education institutions of learning that developed in Cameroon's North West and South West Regions predominantly observing somewhat Anglo-Saxon education principles set out among other business interest, to fill the void created by the absence of professional oriented fields of study in public universities. In the course of reaching this end, some of the institutions for different motivations dishonoured the statutory regulations thereby abusing the confidence assigned on them by the state to serve as intermediate auxiliaries to offer quality education geared towards containing the amplification of youth unemployment.