An agreement between the two institutions was signed in Yaounde on thursday.
Two signatures on one document to ensure that transparency, objectivity and merit serve as the springboard for the admission of freshmen into the National Advanced School of Engineering, ENSP Yaounde. The agreement was signed yesterday October 27 in Yaounde by Reverend Dieudonné Massi Gams on behalf of the National Anti-corruption Commission, CONAC, and Charles Awono Onana, Director of ENSP.
“If it is true that for one to get admitted to professional schools, one needs to ‘speak well’ and even motivate school officials, then it means that those intelligent students from wretched families will hardly have the opportunity to study in their dream school, talk less of excelling in their professions. This therefore is the challenge and myth CONAC and ENSP are out to demystify,” Dieudonné Massi Gams disclosed. He explained that the project “Corruption-free competitive examination” into professional schools is one that aims at assisting institutions technically as they strive to organise and release results of all examinations. To wage war against the canker worm, Dieudonné Massi Gams said it cannot be won if all the strata of society do not get involved.
Charles Awono Onana said 40 years of ENSP is enough proof to attract attention and assistance from CONAC, given that 80 per cent of engineers in the country today are products of the school. He hailed the agreement, saying it is based on the fight against corruption and fraud in competitive and internal examinations with objective to implement mechanisms aimed at ridding admissions, training, examinations, internal promotions, as well as diploma-award process; of corrupt practices.
The “Corruption-free-competitive examinations” project aims at bringing up professional competences. It is to create an environment where youths undergoing training in higher institutions are able to acquire, at the same time, the values of good work, patriotism, honesty, loyalty to one’s word, respect for others and their property and the spirit of common good.
The presence of some members of the diplomatic corps, CONAC and the university community gave a special touch to the signing of the agreement.
