Some 3,241 passed out from HICM, Faculty of Science, HTTC and HTTTC.
It was a day for the three- year old State University of Bamenda on December 5, 2014, when the institution sounded off with the graduation of its first batch of some 3241.
The crowd-pulling event in its Bambili campus featured the graduation of the first non-pedagogic grandaunts from the Faculty of Science and the Higher Institute of Commerce and Management –HICM.
It was the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Tafah Edokat Edward who said the innovation is part of the University’s burning desire to diversify, away from its initial teacher-training facades. The event stressed the preparedness of the University to become a knowledge production society, the University of the Future, patterned in the Anglo-Saxon tradition.
In effect, the Pro Chancellor, Prof. Dominique Mvogo was in the chair when speaker after speaker revealed that the University sent out 1417 from the 1st and 2nd cycles of the Higher Teacher Training college-HTTC, 1556 from the 1st and 2nd Cycles of the Higher Technical teachers Training college-HTTTC, 157 from the Higher Institute of Commerce and Management-HICM and 110 from the Faculty of Science.
Graduands were reminded of the need to dedicate themselves to serve society and not allow the distractions of professional life to suffocate them. The Vice Chancellor, congratulated the pioneer batch of HICM graduands for training in practical managerial sciences. He challenged them to become prime movers of the economy at a time when the password is emergence. Pioneer graduands of the Faculty of Science were cheered as a class that was groomed in the age of technology.
In the long and short of it, it was a day for the University to showcase strength. Created on the strength of a Presidential Decree of 14th December, 2010, the University of Bamenda now features a steady increase in the admission of fresh students, a measure occasioned by the gradual improvement of the state of infrastructure and human resources.
Management hailed the government for infrastructural boost. Its interest to grow, diversify and anchor new programmes also calls for fresh adjustments at the level of human resources. That is perhaps, why management says the absence of qualified lecturers in some Faculties and schools is acute and needs urgent attention.
