The Cameroon General Certificate of Education (GCE) Board is the official body in charge of organizing end-of-year examinations for candidates writing the GCE O and A Levels. The Main Office is located in Buea, Southwest Region (Cameroon), and the Current interim Registrar is Bernadette Ndi. The Cameroon GCE board was established in 1993 as a public examination body supervised by Cameroon ministry of secondary education in Yaoundé.
The following examinations are organized by the GCE Board as of 4 March 2019: The General Certificate of Education Examination Ordinary Level The General Certificate of Education Examination Advanced Level The Technical and Vocational Education Examination Intermediate Level The Technical and Vocational Education Examination Advanced, and the Professional Certificate Examination
Overview
The General Certificate of Education is a pure UK system of education adopted by Anglo-Saxon Cameroon.
In Cameroon, the GCE Ordinary Level examination is a 3-year course program starting from Form 3 to Form 5 (Years 9 to 11). It is usually written in Form 5 (Year 11) in Secondary schools, meanwhile the GCE Advanced Level examinations are written in Upper 6 (Year 13) in High school.
Creation
By a Presidential Decree of March 1997, the GCE Board was authorized to organize the Baccalauréat Technique and related examinations in English for English speaking candidates. Although the names of these examinations were in French, questions were in English and candidates answered them in English, which was their language of instruction.
Chairman
The new GCE Board chairman, Prof SAM NGAM EMMANUEL is the former Secretary-General at the Ministry of Basic Education. He had earlier served at the Ministry of Secondary Education in the same capacity. He took up the position from the Former Minister for Special Duties at the Presidency, Prof Peter Alange ABETY.
Registrar
Since 1993 and continuing to the present day, the GCE Board has been under the able leadership of its esteemed Heads, known as the Registrars.
The current Interim Registrar is Bernadette Ndi. She was appointed Tuesday, October 10, alongside Ngole Evelyn, as Interim Deputy Registrar of General Services, and Shutang, as Interim Deputy Registrar of Technical Services. Their appointments came 15 days after the incumbent Registrar, Dominic Akuh Dang, died in Buea at the age of 64.
Bernadette Ndi is the first female to be appointed as an interim registrar of the GCE Board since its inception on 1 July 1993.
Dang Akuh Dominic is the first Registrar of the GCE Board to have died while in office. Before his demise on September 25, 2023, He took over from the registrar emeritus, Mr. Humphery Ekema Monono after a Prime Ministerial Decree on December 31, 2018.
Heads of the GCE Board
1) Mr. DANG AKUH Dominic [DEAD]
Registrar, GCE Board
2018 - Present
2) Dr. MONONO Ekema Hymphrey
Registrar, GCE Board
2006 - 2018
3) Dr. Omer Weyi YEMBE [DEAD]
Registrar, GCE Board
1997 - 2006
4) Mr. AZONG Wara Andrew
Registrar, GCE Board
1994 - 1997
Supervisor
It is supervised by Nalova Lyonga, Cameroon Ministry of Secondary Education in Yaoundé.
Statistics
In 2018, Statistics from the GCE Board showed that there was a 67.4% passed at the Advanced Level as against 35% in 2017. At the Ordinary Level, 50% passed compared to 25.29% in 2017.
In 2020, Statistics from the GCE Board show that at the Ordinary levels, results have witnessed improvement from 62.15 to 64.04% while at the advanced level, the result however dropped from 74.24% in 2019 to 64.4% in 2020.
Offices
The head Office is situated at Molyko Street, 3.0 km from Mile 17 Motor Park, Opposite Molyko police, Buea.
The Regional Office is located in Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon.
Official Website
The official website of the Cameroon GCE Board is camgceb.org/
Organizational Chart
Decree 2019/100 of 4 March 2019 to modify and complete certain provisions of Decree 2018/614 of 22 October 2018 to reorganize the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Board.
They have now been replaced by the following examinations:
Intermediate Technical and Vocational Education (ITC). Advanced Technical and Vocational Education (ATC). Professional Certification Examination (APC).
The GCE ITC and ATC are written for the first time and has come to replace the CAP/OL Technical and BACC/AL Technical respectively.