Walter Wilson Nana
Buea, Cameroon
The President of the Catholic University Institute of Buea, CUIB, Rev.Fr George Jingwa Nkeze has indicated the entrepreneurial principles CUIB is working on so as to achieve its mission of forming job creators and not job seekers.
At the close of the 8th CUIB Council meeting that took place Friday, December 6 2013 at the Bishop’s House in Small Soppo, Buea, Fr. Nkeze explained to the press the pathways they have opted, saying; “We are updating our Councillors on who we are, as an entrepreneurial university. As a professional university, we are entrepreneurial. That is our distinctive mark.”
Rev.Fr George Jingwa Nkeze, President, CUIB
He enumerated the ingredients of their entrepreneurial preference; “running the university with steering committees for business, all the schools and departments must work with industries, we must have a diversified funding base, the entrepreneurial culture and the doing business spirit.”
Fr. Nkeze noted that the CUIB School of IT has brought in the CISCO Academy to buttress their choice for professionalism, the registration of the CUIB –
CUIB Councillors pose for a family pic at the close of the 8th Council Session
CERI(Centre for Entrepreneurship, Research & Innovation) as a business venture worth FCFA 10 Million, where our students are partners, the motivation to run trade fairs, open business links with companies and stay as a university that sends out job creators and not job seekers. “We train our students to be innovators. That is the mindset we have put in place. We cannot alleviate poverty without doing business. Cameroon will not emerge if we are not into businesses. That is why CUIB is the place where we are preparing Cameroonians for the country’s emergence,” he added.
The CUIB President will concede that they have the necessary human resources at the undergraduate level to carry on with their vision. “We are not ripe to run the Masters and Ph.D programmes but at the first degree, we are comfortable and have what it takes. We are also liaising with other institutions in and out of Cameroon to enrich our capacity and provide services to Cameroonians,” he mentioned.
Fr. Nkeze rejoiced with the fruitful partnerships they have with the US Embassy in Cameroon, Go Ahead Africa Organisation and more. “Our students are encouraged and open to opportunities abroad so that they can build their capacity and be useful to their communities. Our faculties’ members are also open to grants and scholarships thanks to the US Embassy in Cameroon,” he said.
The CUIB boss prescribed the soul of business to his students, which is; good character. “We are not training intellectual thieves, we are training people to take an organisation to a higher level, people who know the dynamics of business, the theory, the pressures of running a business, standing up to competitions and accountability,” he mentioned.
Mgr. Immanuel Bushu, Bishop of Buea and Chancellor of CUIB said the institution is on a good footing, inviting all the stakeholders to stay on board and tackle their respective responsibilities.
