ABOUT MANTUM TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

There is education that enables a graduate to find a job, but not to create a job for himself/herself or for someone else. Then, there is the education that makes someone a job-creator for himself/herself or for others, that is, a job-giver. The latter is in far short supply. The problem in Cameroon today, like in many other developing economies, is not finding people who are willing to work and actively looking for work, but finding those who have the capability to create jobs for themselves and give work to others.

Therefore, apart from education of a very general type, there must be some of specialised nature, the kind of education that will make those who have acquired it creators of enterprises, wealth and jobs. This is the type of education, education that has chosen entrepreneurship as a means of achieving self-sustaining growth and equity (foundations of human development), that the people and Government of Cameroon, like elsewhere around the world, are actively promoting. There is a growing realisation that private initiatives create jobs, generate income and improve people’s lives. They increase tax revenue and foreign exchange earnings, augmenting resources for education, healthcare, housing, environmental protection and creation of further economic opportunities. 

In an on-going and relentless effort to extricate the country from economic turbulence and drastically reduce the problem of unemployment, the Government has put in place a pragmatic education policy which equips, encourages and allows graduates to be creators of employment rather than rely entirely on the Government and the private sector for jobs. One of the ways in which this is being done is through the construction of technical colleges which stimulate and inculcate the spirit of enterprise in students so self-sustaining growth may be attained and sustained.

Given the fact that demand for technical colleges surpasses the possibility for the State, the State has continued to encourage private initiative by citizens of goodwill in this important area of Cameroon’s development effort. It was the realisation that the right type of technical education makes those who have acquired it creators of jobs for themselves and others rather than just job-seekers and Government’s encouragement for citizens to contribute to the education of the youths that led to the founding of MTHS.

A brighter future for any developing country also depends on its ability to produce engineers, technicians and business executives. Technical colleges, such as MTHS, must be the simple, yet, important beginnings in the production of people with these varieties of technical   know-how.

Like all other countries, Cameroon needs strong, well-disciplined, moral and patriotic young men and women to continue to guide it to prosperity and to help it meet future socio- economic challenges with confidence. MTHS is striving to contribute its little quota to the fulfilment of these lofty objectives through the provision of a learning environment  which is conducive not only to successful learning but also to the inculcation of high standards of behaviour, caring relationships and strong moral principles in its students.