IGE

Placed under the authority of an Inspector General, the General Inspectorate of Education is responsible for:

– the development of major pedagogical guidelines and the design of school curricula for nursery and primary education, as well as continuing education programs for teaching staff;

– taking into account the guidelines developed by the Ministry in charge of youth and civic education in terms of civic education in training;

– developing and monitoring the implementation of literacy and non-formal basic education programs and the promotion of national languages;

– monitoring the experimentation and application of educational innovations;

– the design and application of government policy on books and other teaching materials;

– monitoring the initial training of teachers, in conjunction with the Ministry of Secondary Education;

– monitoring and evaluation of educational support staff;

– continuous pedagogical training for teaching staff;

– the organization, coordination, supervision, monitoring and evaluation of educational activities;

– the design of learning assessment tools;

– control and evaluation of the Cameroonian education system, with regard to Basic Education;

– the definition of the student council orientation policy;

– the permanent adaptation of pedagogy to the evolution of science and information and communication technologies;

– relations, in terms of educational research and innovation, with universities, research institutions and training schools;

– research in counseling and psychometrics;

– the Pedagogical Inspectorate responsible for the Promotion of Bilingualism;

– the Pedagogical Inspectorate in charge of Literacy, Non-Formal Basic Education and the Promotion of National Languages;

– the Pedagogical Inspectorate responsible for pre-school education;

– the Pedagogical Inspectorate in charge of Primary Education;

– the Pedagogical Inspectorate in charge of Educational Technologies.