Back To School: Guidance Counseling HelpLine Opened as Academic Year Kicks Off

Secondary Education minister has announced the launch of a Guidance and Counseling HelpLine which is now available to students and parents to reach out to in case they need academic or psychosocial assistance.

Pauline Nalova Lyonga made the 242 237 000 toll free number known this Monday 5 September 2022 as she officially launched the 2022/2023 academic year at the Distance Education Centre in Yaoundé.

Pauline Nalova Lyonga
She emphasized on the importance of this structure that will help students discover and develop their educational, vocational, and psychological potentialities and thereby to achieve an optimal level of personal happiness and social usefulness.

The minister and her close aids visited the Centre which she said is still on its trial stage but already having an influx of calls from parents and students from all over the country.

Visit of the New Guidance Counsellor Helpline Centre
Visit of the New Guidance Counsellor Helpline Centre

Yenese Mirabel Kunyi Atanga, senior Guidance Counselor at the centre said the innovation of a Helpline comes in very handy especially for schools who do not have the services on their campuses.

The Helpline creates a wider reach for the secondary education body.

Minister Nalova said her ministry is working with telecommunications partners to develop a shorter code for the service in order for them to work more effectively by the end of September.

Pauline Nalova also reiterated that the 2022/2023 school year kicks offs at a time when not only the health pandemic is an issue but also international political tensions that have caused economic damage to most countries.

The Secondary Education Minister says families and the education body need to go through the academic year using the slogan “turning difficulties into opportunities.”

She urged students, teachers and school to embrace distance learning which is becoming the new normal.

There equally was the reassurance that necessary steps have been taken to take care of the essential needs of teachers who had grievances about payment of dues. Pauline Nalova Lyonga said the recurrent strikes will be a thing of the past.

“Ensure that the values of conviviality, equity, respect and peace should thrive in a multilingual and cultural school environment. Intensify the fight against drugs, indiscipline, alcoholism in the 2022/2023 academic year.” Pauline Nalova Lyonga advised her collaborators as she proposed the installation of surveillance cameras in schools.

Bruno Ndonwie Funwie

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