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GCE BOARD: THE LONG WALK TO QUALITY EDUCATION



The Cameroon GCE board was officially created in 1993, according to a book titled "The Cameroon GCE Crisis: A Test of Anglophone Solidarity." The book says the creation of the board was spearheaded by Anglophone community groups, such as the Teachers' Association of Cameroon (TAC), led by Mr. Peter Chateh; churches; Confederation of Anglophone Parents’ Teachers’ Association of Cameroon (CAPTAC), with other trade union groups also playing a pivotal role in the creation of the board.

It took 10 years, from 1983 to October 1993 for a consensus to be reached by the aforementioned groups and the Government of Cameroon to create an examination board to award certificates to Anglophone Cameroonian students.


Following the creation of the Board, the Ministry of National Education set up an Ad Hoc Committee to write the text of application to the 1 July 1993 decree. On 12 October 1993, the Prime Minister signed the Text of Application; Order Nº: 112/CAB/PM to define and determine the administrative and financial organization of the Board. This led to the appointment of the pioneer Chairman of the Board. The installation of the Chairman by the Minister of National Education on 25 October 1993 in Buea marked the starting point in the functioning of the Cameroon GCE Board.

The initial decree was amended and completed by two other decrees: Nº:97/45 and Nº:91/46 both of 5 March 1997. These amendments widened the scope of activities of the Board to include the organization of examinations in English leading to the award of the Baccalauréat Technique, the Brevet de Technique, the Brevet d’études Professionnelles, and the Brevet Profesionnel Certificates.


The riveting memoirs of the outstanding strife of Anglophone community groups, THE GCE BOARD, brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences and the urge of both parents and teachers, which helped to shape the common destiny of future generations. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, The Cameroon GCE Board is the exhilarating pride of an Anglo-Saxon system of education, and Anglo-Saxon teachers and parents, who want nothing but quality education for their children; a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader.


The Cameroon GCE Board burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible nature of human hope and dignity.

The first council of the Board held on 19 November 1993. Since then GCE examinations in Cameroon have been organized by the Cameroon GCE Board.
First Sessions of the Board Examination
The Cameroon General Certificate of Education Board organized the first sessions of its examinations as follows:

For the General Education subjects, in June 1994;
For the GCE in Technical Education subjects in June 1995; and
For the Baccalauréat Technique and Related Examinations in June 1997.

International Recognition of the Cameroon GCE Results
Since Cameroon took over from the London GCE, the University of London Board has recognized the grades awarded at both the Ordinary Level and Advanced Level as equivalent to the grades awarded in corresponding subjects at the London GCE examination.




As the enigmatic Nelson Mandela wrote, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, it is evident that the road to freedom is often very long, but joy is felt after such a walk. The GCE Boards has gone through a lot of huddles to be where it is today.
Unlike other institutions that control public exams, and which are always in disarray as exams are poorly organized with wrong testing mechanisms used while something else is taught in the classrooms, the GCE board is professional, putting up new strategies to combat fraud and organize hitch free exams, like getting Board and exam officials to man and run the centres and creating catchment centres to stem out question leakages, the prompt payment of invigilation dues and many other innovations such as the new syllabuses for technical and vocational education that have been drawn up and are being tested in order to cause more children to embrace technical education, are thanks to the efforts of the Registrar, Mr. DANG AKUH Dominic, and his team.
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