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Report in Cameroon: How to train the engineer of tomorrow, adapted to the needs of the continent?

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Gérard Beral, graduate of Ucac-Icam class of 2017 and now head of the Open Courses project.

He works on the construction of a drone with his learners and he teaches an active pedagogy, based on the resolution of problems and situations.

© RFI / Raphaëlle Constant

By: Raphaëlle Constant Follow |

Emmanuelle Bastide

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In Cameroon, only 10% of students in higher education are destined for careers as engineers and technicians, a figure that is still too low to respond to the country's economic development.

The continent is growing and the need for engineers will be more and more important.

The problem is that the offer of training for engineers is reduced, often expensive, not adapted to the job market and unrelated to the industrial reality of the country.

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The higher education sector is booming in Central Africa and is attracting French schools that want to train young talent.

This is the case of the Catholic Institute of Arts and Crafts, an engineering school which built a campus in Douala in 2013 in partnership with the Catholic University of Central Africa.

UCAC-ICAM relies on two courses: work-study training, which is too underdeveloped on the continent;

and on a new program, the Open Course, based on an active pedagogy of situation resolution.

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