- - - - - - conducting since 2010, through its Anti-corruption Unit, a fierce MINEDUB crusade against head teachers who condition access to schooling to the payment of school uniform fees, money for photocopies, ID cards, catch-up classes or the so-called Parents-Teachers Associations’ fees. During the 2014-2015 school year re-opening, the above-mentioned Unit went down to the field and its coverage was 31.1%, representing 1 861 schools out of the 5 982 targeted public primary schools, where no cases of deviance were identified. suppressing obligatory contributions for public primary schools in Cameroon which led to a considerable increase in attendance; increasing the number of GTTC and GTTTC (there are 61 GTTC and 6 GTTTC for over 60 000 graduates) and revision of curricula in order to ensure the quality training of teachers; increasing the number of CPF that provide free-choice or short-term l vocational training to girls who have dropped out of school; setting up professional high schools and revitalizing Rural Handicrafts and Domestic Science Centres (SAR/SM) (; signing in 2013 of a Partnership Agreement for training and professional integration of youths between the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training and the Interprofessional Council of Sanitation Companies within the CEMAC Zone; devolving certain powers to the RLA which ensure the implementation of free education policy, particularly, the construction, equipment and maintenance of schools, acquisition of school equipment and supplies, recruiting and supporting auxiliary staff; negotiating a funding agreement for Cameroon within the framework of the Global Partnership for Education; organising a multi-sector national forum on “Quality Education: free, compulsory and adapted to all children in Africa” with support from IDAY Cameroon and CEFAN in June 2014; preparing and validating in 2013 of the Handbook on civic education and national integration; organising in 2012 of an international symposium on the report assessing the achievements of various ministries in civic education and national integration; reviewing and validating the national education sector strategy in 2012; validating the national policy on school textbooks and other teaching materials in December 2012; setting up Training Centres in Trades (CFM), offering non-agricultural training to youths in rural areas, thanks to funding by C2D. As regards the education of vulnerable children, the Government, with support from technical and financial partners, including: UNICEF, UNESCO, ISESCO, WFP, Plan Cameroon, COUNTERPART, Chantal BIYA Foundation, amongst others, are assisting the Government through various forms of support and specific programmes in this targeted approach, with support from the media. - educating families on the importance of registering the births of their children; - experimenting the teaching of national languages which started in the 2013-2014 school year in some selected 35 pilot schools in the Centre, Littoral, Far North and West Regions; - the holding in the course of 2014 of a capacity-building seminar for 105 officials from the central and external services. Similarly, 30 teachers for the preparatory classes 19