In Paul Biya’s inauguration speech on November 6, 2025, he pledged to implement a special youth employment promotion plan. In line with this commitment, he also announced the revival of entrance examinations into ENS and ENSET, which had been suspended.
Since 2023, admissions into the Higher Teacher Training Colleges (ENS) and Higher Technical Teacher Training Colleges (ENSET) through competitive entrance examinations were suspended. This decision opened the door to admission by file review, allowing candidates to enroll as private trainees.
These trainees underwent professional training without any guarantee of integration into the public service, marking a major break from the long-standing system that governed the creation of these teacher training institutions, where successful candidates were automatically integrated into the civil service upon graduation.
This policy shift followed a joint circular issued in December 2023 by the Ministers of Higher Education and Public Service, which officially brought an end to the practice of systematic integration of ENS and ENSET graduates into the public service.
The move has since raised concerns among trained teachers and education stakeholders, as it has left thousands of graduates trained between 2023 and 2025 without formal appointments.
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Trained ENS and ENSET Teachers Appeal for Integration
Now, 1,500 trained teachers, who are calling for the integration of about 10,000 graduates trained in ENS and ENSET over the past two years. The group also points out that the shortage of teachers has worsened in recent years. According to their enumerated figures, at least 4,556 teachers who had already been integrated were either dismissed or automatically revoked after abandoning their posts to immigrate to Canada. These losses, combined with retirements, have significantly deepened the shortage of qualified teachers in secondary schools across Cameroon.
As the education sector continues to face staffing challenges, the collective insists that integrating trained these graduates would help stabilize the system and improve the quality of secondary education nationwide.
