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2011 GCE ORDINARY AND ADVANCED LEVELS' RESULTS SOON

The Cameroon GCE Board is striving to improve its performance in handling the official end of year examinations. This apparent change in character from an organization once marred by laxity and inertia to one that is efficient and can be reckoned with is observed in the early publication of its results in recent years.

The Cameroon General Certificate of Education Board was created to carter for secondary education evaluation for the mainly English speaking Cameroonians from the North West and South West regions as well as other Cameroonians interested in such Examinations. The GCE Board organizes, corrects and publishes two main end of courses examinations; the GCE Ordinary Level (GCE O/L) which is taken on the fifth year of secondary education and the GCE Advanced Level taken on the seventh and final year of secondary education and recently the Baccalaureate . Since its creation in the early 90s, it is only in recent years that the GCE Board is showing signs to justify its raison d'etre as conceived by the Government.
The recent progress registered by the Board, however, is seen by critics as being only a step in a journey of a thousand miles awaiting it. Some critics challenge the Board to introduce Scholarship schemes to encourage brilliant students to further their education at higher levels.
In a developing country like Cameroon where income levels are extremely low, most students either end up as dropouts or face financial setbacks in furthering their education beyond the secondary school level. Some years back, the Government of Cameroon used to award scholarships to students who performed brilliantly in the GCE examinations.
This suspension of award of scholarships to bright students came at a time when unemployment was reaching its peaks amongst the youths of the country. Bad governance and the economic crises that swept across most African countries were the main causes of this situation. As a result, youths resorted to all sorts of malpractices. The idea of odd jobs suddenly disappeared in the society as the job hungry youths spared no income generating opportunity.
Recently, the country began experiencing some economic revival with the attainment of the completion point of the HIPC initiative. A series of massive recruitments into the public service were recently carried out by the government. The massive recruitments were meant for priority sectors such as health, education and agriculture. Teachers, doctors and nurses were recruited in their thousands. The government has reportedly adopted a long-term development plan but this without loosing sight of the millennium development goals which developing countries have committed themselves to achieve by 2015.
The President of the Republic of Cameroon, HE Paul Biya has also instituted sweeping reforms to improve upon the country's governance system. Various anti-corruption watchdogs have been put in place and the results of their actions so far is appalling. A series of arrests of high ranking state officials have been registered and procedures are ongoing (though slow due to the international protocols involved) to recover the funds they embezzled.

Cameroon G.C.E. Board June 2011 G.C.E. Advance and Ordinary Level Results

The 16-year-old Cameroon General Certificate of Education (GCE) Board shall release its 2011 Examinations results by July ending. The results would be first read on National radio beginning, as usual with the Advanced Level (A/L).the GCE board is unlikely to publish the 2011 Ordinary and Advanced Level results on the internet in spite of repeated calls from students and some parents for it to do so.

Cameroon G.C.E. Board June 2011 Results on the Internet

Despite increasing calls from students and parents across the country and the Diaspora, Cameroon G.C.E. Board is still reluctant to publish GCE results on the Internet. The widely held view that theCameroon General Certificate of Education, GCE, Board, published the 2007 results on the Internet has been refuted by The Deputy Registrar of the Board, Mathew Akoko. Speaking to the press in Bamenda after a meeting with GCE Superintendents and Chiefs of Centre, Akoko said the act was committed by some young men in Molyko who later apologised in writing, promising never to repeat it. 
Akoko was defending the Board against accusations of bad faith from publishers of local newspapers who bought the soft copies of the GCE Ordinary and Advanced Levels from the Board and suffered severe loss because most of the candidates read their results on the Internet.
"We explained this to the publishers. We will ensure that this does not repeat itself," he assured the press. The Registrar said he was in Bamenda to sensitise invigilators, Superintendents and Chiefs of Centres on the necessity to conduct the exams with fairness to ensure that all candidates write under the same conditions. The Deputy Registrar said if his institution wanted to publish the results on the Internet, it would have used its own website. Akoko blamed the men for revealing the results online because it could help ill-intended individuals to tamper with them.
The Board said in future it would incorporate a copy of the student's photograph in the examination certificate. This would ensure security of examinations and stop the sale of stolen certificates.
He also described as false information that journalists were barred from GCE marking centres. Journalists, he said, are free to visit the marking centres but they can't be allowed into the examination rooms because they would distract candidates. 
"They are free to meet the authorities in charge and ask questions on the conduct of the exams," he said.

Publishing G.C.E. Ordinary and Advanced Levels’ Results on the Internet

Ever since the Cameroon GCE Board was established and as more Cameroonians got access to the Internet a few years later, many have desired to have results of its examinations published on the Internet. I think many reasons could be advanced for and against the publishing of GCE results on the Internet. Find here some reasons why GCE results should or should not be published on the Internet.

Motives in favour of publishing GCE results on the Internet

The following could favour the publication of of results of public examinations like the GCE on the Internet.

  1. Easy and fast access to the results by those interested. 
  2. It will encourage more Cameroonians to get used to the Internet and appreciate the importance of Information and Communication Technologies' knowledge. 
  3. More jobs will be created as the owners of cyber cafes witness a sudden increase in incomes.

Motives against the publishing of GCE results on the Internet

Here are the main reasons I think play against the publication of Results of major examinations like the GCE on the Internet.

  1. The results could easily be tempered with by some unscrupulous individuals if published on the Internet.
  2. Students and parents could be exploited by cyber cafes that may charge exorbitant sums for Internet credits.
  3. Greater exposure to the Internet shall imply greater exposure to scams and inappropriate sites for teenagers.
  4. By publishing on local journals, the GCE Board is indirectly boasting the reading culture which is currently low. Publishing on the Internet will exclude this incentive. 
  5. Publishing on the Internet will mean frustrating and weakening the local news papers. 
  6. The Internet can hardly replace the radio; therefore reading the results over the radio encourages Cameroonians to cultivate a habit of listen to the radio. 
  7. Publishing the results on the Internet may diminish the credibility of the country and the various certificates abroad.
  8. It’s an opportunity for local news papers that publish the results to register a sudden increase in sales and grow.
  9.  It’s a source of revenue for the GCE Board when news papers and radio stations buy soft copies of the results.

The best ways to have your GCE 2011 results

The best ways of having access to your GCE 2010 results are the following:-

  • Listen keenly to the National radio station.
  • Buy a local news paper that has the results. For example, the daily Cameroon Tribune
  • If you are in or around Buea, go to the GCE Board headquarters where the results are pasted on the notice Board. Note that at the Board you will be confronted by a large crowd.
  • You can call or text a friend who has access to the results and esquire from them.

Why the restriction against publication of GCE results on the Internet?

From the previous analyses, the ban is therefore necessary: -

  • To check fraud at that level of educational qualification. 
  • To reduce the rate of exposure to internet scams.
  • To minimise exploitation of interested students and their parents by cybercafes.
  • A source of income for the Board by selling the results to journals and radio stations.
  • Boast the credibility of the country and the various certificates abroad.
  • It encourages Cameroonians to read news papers and listen to the radio and;
  • Last but not the least, moral concerns over exposure of teenagers to pornographic sites.

FREE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2011

Are you seeking for a scholarship? Generally, scholarships are awarded for a variety of reasons that fall into certain categories. However, other scholarships are awarded on the bases of criteria that could not be easily categorized. These may be for reasons of the student's association with the objectives of the sponsoring organization. For example, some corporations give scholarships to their employees' children or based upon academic success.Some scholarships have a "bond" requirement. Recipients may be required to work for a particular employer for a specified period of time or to work in rural or remote areas; otherwise they may be required to repay the value of the support they received from the scholarship. This is particularly the case with teacher training scholarships and currently with health and medical education scholarships for people from or prepared to work in rural and remote areas in certain countries.
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