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THE DIRECTOR\'S MESSAGE
The world today is changing at a frantic rhythm. In fact, technological innovations are coming so fast that the ones produced during the last fifty years, have already outnumbered mankind’s inventions since the prehistoric era. The technological revolution that dates back from the middle of the nineteenth century continues today, regularly punctuated by historic disruptions that fundamentally modify the value systems as well as the organization and production processes. Besides, the positions once considered as acquired are now more and more questioned. New economic actors are entering the international economic scene, and are modifying roles on the geopolitical podium. Competition amongst nations and Enterprises is in full swing.

Is this broad and permanent restructuring movement, which echoes with that other biological competition that has granted survival throughout the years of intelligent and clever species, able to develop survival and adaptation strategies in a constantly changing environment, not a sign that some nations will disappear, notably those unfit and unprepared to compete ?

In that perspective, countries as well as enterprises are organizing to face that generalized competition with the ambition of improving their living and working environment and the consolidation of their position amongst all nations. Everywhere in the world, fighting strategies are being put in place since in this knowledge society, knowledge plays a strategic role. All of this strongly underlines the close relationship between one’s knowledge and one’s ability to earn a place in society. This is a major challenge for the youth in an environment where quite often, the knowledge acquired in our universities can hardly be used in the job market.

It is clear that the public sector is no longer the corner stone of the economic activity. The ability of higher education institutions to match their lectures with the demands of the job creating private sector to facilitate graduates’ professional integration becomes a key performance indicator.

For this reason and in keeping with its tradition, the National Advanced School of Engineering is providing a whole new range of vocational training courses with high added value in order to enable young people who have received inadequate training to supplement their training with vocational training modules in fields where the demand by companies is high. Its recognition as an IT MICROSOFT centre is a very coveted label that gives it the legitimacy and capacity to issue Certificate of training in the field of information technology and communication and project management.

Our International Center for Certificate Training is therefore the instrument that we use to serve that ambition whose aim is to save our youth and the Cameroonian society at large by turning into real opportunities, jobs that, until now, were out of reach.

My position as Director of the School is unequivocal: we will engage into this path with courage and commitment. It is through this kind of action that we can contribute in a visible and significant way to the improvement of the lives of our fellow citizens and merit the position of elite that is ours amongst the national higher education.



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