Abstract
Educational co-operation within the China-Africa Relation has been identified as an important sector on which Africa can leverage to boost its education and skill development that have been some of the bottlenecks of Africa’s development. This cooperation centers on China’s role in Africa’s human resource development through soft power with Africa and promoting skill development for African countries. As such, the paper examined the different dimensions of China-Africa educational cooperation and its impact with a focus on Cameroon, through a review of corresponding literature which include; published and unpublished papers, journal papers, government reports and newspapers articles. The study found that there still exits huge skill gap with no formal evaluations, even though there have been records of skill development schemes as well as increase in pledges made with each successive high level summits. Finally, the study maintains that strong internal policies and pragmatic action on Cameroonian side will enable Cameroon to properly engage China for WIN -WIN cooperation. Keywords : China; Cameroon; Educational cooperation; skill development DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-34-03 Publication date: December 31 st 2019
Highlights
IntroductionThe world has witnessed a strong presence of China in Africa. The continuous growth, change and overall development of China-African cooperation is evident in political, economic and educational fields
In recent years, the world has witnessed a strong presence of China in Africa
It is important to note that educational cooperation within China- African relation have come a long way since the 50s and in the 21st century boosted by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2000 (FOCAC) framework
Summary
The world has witnessed a strong presence of China in Africa. The continuous growth, change and overall development of China-African cooperation is evident in political, economic and educational fields. In the case of South-South Cooperation costs of education are much less than in the North; it reduces brain drain and isolation of scientists in the South; enhances ability of scientists to work in Third World environment and address real-life problems; facilitates building long-term links between institutions of learning and research in the South This underscores the growing strength in China-Africa cooperation. The study examined the impact of China-Africa Educational cooperation in Africa with a focus on Cameroon, through the different dimensions of China’s education and training cooperation with Africa which includes: support to short term and long term training of Cameroonians in China; university to university cooperation between China and Cameroon; development of Confucius Institutes; development of education or training projects and project-related training within Cameroon It beams its light from the past decade since the establishment of FOCAC, and seeks to answer the following research questions: 1. Through a review of corresponding literature and materials the present study seeks to provide suggestions towards improving the education and skill development within the Sino-Cameroon educational cooperation
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