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The Cameroon GCE crisis : a test of anglophone solidarity / editors, Francis B. Nyamnjoh & Richard Fonteh Akum.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- General certificate of education examination (Great Britain).
- Educational tests and measurements--Cameroon--History.
- Educational tests and measurements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Edition:
- [2nd ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This book richly documents the battles fought by the Anglophone community in Cameroon to safeguard the General Certificate of Education (GCE), a symbol of their cherished colonial heritage from Britain, from attempts by agents of the Ministry of National Education to subvert it. These battles opposed a mobilised and determined Anglophone civil society against numerous machinations by successive Francophone-dominated governments to destroy their much prided educational system in the name of 'national integration'. When Southern Cameroonians re-united with La R?publique du Cameroun in 1961, they
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter One - Anglophone Students of the University of Yaoundé Petition against Introduction of a New Cameroon GCE Scheme for Anglophone Schools Nation-Wide; Chapter Two - The Birth and Struggles of TAC; Chapter Three - The Church Played a Major Role; Chapter Four - CAPTAC at the Forefront of the Struggle to Redeem the GCE; Chapter Five - The Board Is Here But...; Chapter Six - The Day Our Baby Board Came: Accounts of a Victory; Chapter Seven - Effective Marking of the GCE: No Easy Task
- Chapter Eight - Lessons from the GCE AffairChapter Nine - The Problem; Chapter Ten - What can we learn from our former British education officers?; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613198525
- 9781283198523
- 1283198525
- 9789956716937
- 9956716936
- 9789956716104
- 9956716103
- 9789956615735
- 9956615730
- OCLC:
- 830166650
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