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Minister Urges Dialogue To Avert Strikes In Universities |
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By Elias Ntungwe Ngalame
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
 The Minister of Higher Education, Jacque Fame Ndongo has called on University Rectors to give room for dialogue with the lecturers and students in their different institutions.
The Minister said regular dialogue to better understand the grievances of lecturers was the best recipe to institute peace and understanding within the university milieu.
The minister was speaking at the 2008 Coordination Meeting of the University Commission in Yaounde that held on 11 November 2008.
Against the backdrop of threats of a strike action by the Syndicate Of University Lecturers who accordingly have been clamouring for increased salaries and better working conditions, the Minister called on Rectors to be ready to make enormous sacrifices to better the lots of lecturers and students. ]
The Minister who has held a series of meetings with the different university actors since the announcement of the strike action by the syndicate in a bid to nip the strike in the bud, called on the rectors to hold regular meetings with their lecturers and together try to find lasting solutions to their problems.
It should be noted that the University Coordination Commission holds yearly in accordance with article 6 of decree no 93/ 027 of 19 January 1993 regulating and instituting a common university disposition.
The different actors during the meeting examined the extent to which the various recommendations in the last university coordination meeting have been executed. They also examined the extent to which the different institutions have started applying the new LMD system reached during 6 October , 2008 meeting.
Another salient point that came under the scanner of the university rectors is the implementation of the orientation towards professionalising university education as defined by the Head of State Paul Biya. The Minister recalled the Head of State’s address to the youths prescribing a new formula of “one student one employment”, as the way out to curb the escalating rate of unemployment in the country.
Fame Ndongo pointed out that the meeting was the first for university heads since the beginning of the new academic year thus the need to examine the rate of preparedness in all the seven state universities. Application files for the promotion of lecturers were also examined.
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