Human and social sciences
Serge Messomo Elle (directed by)
Banking and Finance Education and Prospects for Employability of University Graduates in Cameroon
Banking and finance, although a very old intellectual concern dating to the early days of the modern economy, constitute relatively recent and late components of the university training in Cameroon. Although an essential dimension of commercial or technical-commercial education at secondary school education in the parallel English and French sub-sectors, they only had a timid echo in the higher education system, either couched in economics programmes or as a part of specialised training in the lone Higher Technical Teacher Training College going by the French title of Ecole Normale Supérieure d’Enseignement Technique (ENSET), Douala, as a way of ensuring a reproduction of lower level technical -commercial secondary education. This trend seems to still hold part in the official division between general education, on the one hand, and technical-commercial education, on the other. Since the introduction of reforms that ushered in private higher education, which seems to be a near-exclusive preserve of the latter, university-level education in this domain continues to follow this old dichotomous pattern.
Serge Messomo Elle is a Full Professor of the Faculties of Management Sciences of Cameroon’s Universities and an Agrégé CAMES in Management Sciences since 2017. He is currently teaching at the University of Buea, where he holds the position of Head of the Department of Banking and Finance. He is also the Acting Coordinator of the MBA in Management of Financial Institutions. He is the author of more than 15 scientific articles published in High-Ranking Scientific Journals like Strategic Change and Managerial and Decision Economics. He is also a reviewer of many international Journals like Poverty and Public Policy Journal and Financial Innovations Journal of Springer.