Cameroon teachers commemorate World Teachers Day

Teachers in Cameroon today October 5th commemorate the World Teachers Day under the theme "Investing in the future, investing in teachers."

Addressing teachers on this day, the Secretary General of SNAES, stated that, public education, intended to ensure equal opportunities between the rich and the poor, is now overpriced due to the erosion of the interventions of the State and the prohibitive rates for PAE scale contributions involved.

The price of textbooks today, at the discretion of a private sector dominated by multinational corporations, is out of reach for most school children, an essential tool for quality training.

The proportion of part-time teachers or ' parents' continues to grow, and in some areas it is near 50%. The latter, paid at the minimum wage high school and below at primary and maternal, are not motivated to remain in teaching and, therefore, have no ambition to offer high quality services.

He decried the pitiful state of which the educational system has been abandoned in the country and called on the government to invest in teachers now if they really want to invest for emergence in the future