Registration and delivery of lectures have been modified to ensure a smooth academic year.

It is 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday November 5, 2013; First Year students of the Faculty of Economics and Management (FEM) of the Yaounde II University, Soa are attentively listening to lectures at the Amphitheatre 1000 of the institution. With a microphone, Dr Sabine P. Moungou Mbenda is lecturing the freshmen on the topic; “Introduction to Management.” With the Amphitheatre 1000 filled to capacity, the students seem enthusiastic to receive lectures.

While First Year students of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences (FCPS) as well as FEM are already undertaking lectures in various amphitheatres, a majority of the Second, Third and Fourth Year students of the institution are collecting their re-sit examination results pasted around campus. Dr Magloire-Louis Bikomen, a lecturer at FEM said the results were pasted on Monday, November 4, 2013.

But due to technical problems from the computer, he added, several corrections have to be made on the results. However, old students who do not have problems with their results were also seen in various amphitheatres receiving lectures.

Although the university calendar indicates that registration for new students ended a month ago, authorities of the institution have given an opportunity for late comers to register. This explains the continuation of pre-registration for First Year students into the University of Yaounde II. The Chief of Students’ Records and Research at the Division of Academic Affairs, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Martin Manga, said the registration procedure this year has a novelty in that the moment an applicant’s file is validated, he/she is immediately given a matriculation number and a registration form.

As soon as the applicant pays his fees, he can proceed with registration. Martin Manga said this is unlike before when the university take one or two days to study the files of students. The delay resulted in some students abandoning their files with the university which had originals of their certificates.

While students are excited to notice something new on campus, that is, the solar energy lights, they are also happy to discover new professional degree courses in various faculties. Because of space limitation, the university has divided the studying programme of the different faculties into two groups, from Mondays to Wednesdays and Thursdays to Saturdays.