EDITOR IN CHIEF
Dr Frederick Ebot Ashu
Founder of CCELMS & Founding Editor of ELMS, Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Education, University of Buea, Cameroon
- EDITORIAL BOARD
- Current Issue
- EXECUTIVE MEMBERS
- PATRONS AND PATRONESS
- AUTHOR FEES
- Copyright Notice
- Archives
- Manuscript Submission
- Aims, Objectives & Scope
- Authorship
- Editorial Addresses
- Review Policy
REVIEWS EDITORS
Rev, Dr. Michel Auguste Tchoumboi Ngantchop
School of Catholic Studies, Catholic University Institute of the University of Buea and Douala Campuses, Buea, Cameroon
Mr Akat Fidelis Etta
Ministry of Secondary Education, Yaounde, Cameroon
Professor Besong Besong Joseph
Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Education, University of Buea, Cameroon
Dr. Agnes Lyonga (Associate Professor)
Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Education, University of Buea
Dr. Humphrey Monono
President, Association for Educational Assessment in Africa (AEAA)
Dr. Ndeley Samuel Etonge
Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Education, University of Buea, Cameroon
Father Manga Djonra
Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Education, University of Buea
Dr King James Nkum
Senior Lecturer/ Deputy Dean of Faculty at Taraba State University, Nigeria & Lead Partner at Kingseal Attorneys & Solicitors, Abuja, Nigeria
Rev. Asah J, Fotoh
Higher Technical Teacher Training College, University of Buea, Cameroon
Dr. Tah Patricia Bih
Registrar of ISEC International University Isokolo, New Road, Limbe, Cameroon
Dr. Nforbi Shalotte Lem
Department of Science of Education, Higher Technical Teacher Training College, University of Bamenda, Cameroon
Dr. Krishna Kathuria
MIT Vishwashanti Gurukuf Shool, Pune, India,
Ejine Calista Dione, Government Bilingual High School Mutengene, Cameroon
Dr. Anjum Nazir Qureshi
Department of Electronics and Communication, Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering Research and Technology, Chandrapur, India
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Professor Hauwa Imam
Director of Institute of Education – University of Abuja, Faculty of Education, University of Abuja, FCT, Abuja, Nigeria
Professor Paul Miller
Director of Institute for Educational & Social Equity, Professor of Educational Leadership & Social Justice
Professor Therese Mungah Shalo Tchombe
Emeritus Professor & Honorary Dean, UNESCO Chair for Special Needs Education, University of Buea Faculty of Education
Professor Petros Pashiardis
Professor of Educational Leadership, Director, Center for Research and Training in Educational Leadership and Policy (CERTELP), Open University of Cyprus
Professor Ray K. Auala
Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Namibia, Namibia
Professor Tony Bush
Professor of Educational Leadership, Faculty of Social Sciences, the University of Nottingham. Editor of the BELMAS journal, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership (EMAL)
Vol. 33 No.3 June 2024
Table of Contents
- Dr Frederick Ebot Ashu -President
- Akwo Franka-Secretary General
- Ejine Calista Dione -Financial Secretary
- Rufina Ngum-Treasurer
- Wirsy Heding Mufer-Adviser
- Ben Tame-Adviser
- Rev. Dr. Michel Auguste Tchoumbou Ngantchop,Adviser
- Rev. Asah J. Fotoh, Adviser
Mr. Akat Fidelis Etta
Inspector General of Services, Ministry of Secondary Education, Yaounde, Cameroon
Dr. Humphrey Monono
President, Association for Educational Assessment in Africa (AEAA)
Hope Sona Ebai
CDC Board Chairman
This journal charges the following author fees. Article Publication: CFA69,000.00. Please send your article to ebotashu87@gmail.com. If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs.
Annual CCELMS Membership Subscription rates:
Institutional rate (electronic and print copy) CFA15000. Individual rate (electronic copy only) CFA 6000. Student rate (Electronic copy only) CFA5000. Include 5000CFA for CCEAM registration (Institution, professional and student members)
Payment of Fees: Fees may be paid through Momo: 681246574 or by cheque, by BACS or collected by direct debit to CCELMS.
Please note that you are only able to pay by direct debit if you have a bank account.
Copyright Notice: Authors who publish with this journal must agree to the following terms:
- Authors should promise that their works are entirely original, and all the references in their works should be appropriately cited or quoted.
- The works have not been published previously.
- The behavior of submitting the same work to other journals is unacceptable.
- The journal editor has the right to edit the format of works.
Provisional schedule for ELMS publication release.
Vol. 33 No 4 December 2024
Vol 33 No 5 June 2025
Vol 33 No 6 December 2025
Authors are requested to submit an electronic version of the manuscript, by e-mail to the editors: ebotashu87@gmail.com. Please ensure that you submit editable/source files only (Microsoft Word). Furthermore, it is imperative that authors remove from their submissions any information that will identify them or their affiliations to reviewers. The article should be double spaced, with wide margins, and bear the title of the article. The article should not exceed 8,000 words including references. The article should be accompanied by an abstract of the contents of no more than 200 words. If more than one author is involved then the author who will be the main point of communication must be identified with a full add postal address and e-mail address if possible. Proofs will be sent to this author, and should be returned within one week after they have been received. A telephone number should also be given. Off-prints and copies of the journals will be sent to the lead author. All pages should be numbered. It is essential to give a word count, which should cover the article and references, footnotes and the abstract. Authors should be aware that the circulation of ELMS is global. UK English must be used, with some sensitivity to the international nature of readership. No manuscript or parts thereof will be returned to authors. The publishers reserve the right to copyedit, proof-read and correct all articles for publication.
Pre-submission
Help readers find your article: Before you submit your manuscript, go back and review your title, keywords and abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Findings, Discussion and Conclusion. These elements are key to ensuring that readers will be able to find your article online through online search engines such as Google.
Submissions
Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you carefully read and adhere to all the Manuscript Submission guidelines. Manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Please read the Manuscript Submission guidelines, and then simply create an account and submit your article online. The submission will not be accepted for publication until it is confirmed that the article has not been published elsewhere, is not being considered for publication elsewhere, and that all authors have agreed to the submission.
Aims
ELMS is a peer reviewed open access journal, published as the official journal of the Cameroon Council for Educational Leadership and Management Society (CCELMS), Cameroon. ELMS is publishing in both online (Electronic and Print-hardcopy) versions. The journal aims to publish papers of high quality and strives to promote scholarly debate across a broad coverage of topics with a flexible editorial policy, accepting submission in any of the leadership, management and administration areas within the journal scope which covers all leadership, management and administration aspects of economic, social, cultural, good governance, human and environmental sustainability challenges in the world.
Objectives
It is a fact that educational establishments in most developing countries struggle with intense pressures in their efforts to deliver higher standards of education across a broader curriculum, with fewer resources. There is no doubt that administrators, manager and leaders are the main component to any educational progress and the burden of responsibility increasingly falls on them to adapt positively to external pressures and catalyse action. Secondly, due to the rapid change in the teaching-learning process, educational policy, technological innovations etc., there is lot many factors to discuss and develop. The challenges faced by the administrators will be analyzed in (Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Studies, which presents an account of the latest research and practice taking place in specific national or regional contexts, papers consider issues and themes of interest that transcend single national and international context.
Scope
The journal covers a broad range of topics in educational leadership, management and administration, including increasing equality and diversity in educational leadership, social justice and equity in education policies, school and organizational leadership, innovations in educational governance and governing, school and organizational improvement, professional and teacher leadership, research students’ communities. Further it will cover the ethical and moral values, teacher/lecturer-student relationships, institutional finance, and human subjectivity in the sound educational organizations, educational policy and role of research in the educational institution.
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once the authorization of all contributing authors has been gathered. Those submitting papers should carefully. Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript.
These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship. Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section.
For information on rates to publish your paper. CCELMS membership or for advertising contact CCELMS Office, Rm 024, Ground Floor, Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Education, University of Buea, Cameroon
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The journal adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. Each manuscript is subject to initial review by the Editor. All papers are then reviewed by at least two referees. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, and an editorial decision is generally reached within 6-8 weeks of first submission.
Abstracts and manuscripts are peer-reviewed and authors should ensure that their abstracts provide sufficient detail so that reviewers will be able to fully evaluate author’s work, research design, data, analysis, and results. Before submitting your abstract, please first review our Manuscript Subscription Criteria
Acknowledgements: Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References. .All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements’ section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Authors should disclose whether they had any writing assistance and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.
Funding Acknowledgement: To comply with the guidance for Research Funders, Authors and Publishers issued by the Research Information Network (RIN), Cameroon Council for Educational Leadership and Management Society additionally requires all Authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading.
Off-print: An electronic copy of the journal, in Adobe Acrobat PDF file format, will be sent to authors on request from which they may make off-prints.
Subscription Information: ELMS are published two times a year in Cameroon on behalf of the Cameroon Council for Educational Leadership and Management Society (CCELMS).
Formatting your article: Please refer to the submission guidelines. When formatting your references, please ensure you check the reference style. SAGE Harvard reference style, the SAGE Vancouver reference style and the APA reference style are preferable. If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Harvard output.
Artwork Guidelines: Illustrations, Pictures and graphs, should be supplied with the highest quality and in an electronic format that helps us to publish your article in the best way possible. Please follow the guidelines below to enable us to prepare your artwork for the printed issue as wellas the online version. Format: TIFF, JPEG, PDF: Common format for pictures (containing no text or graphs). EPS: Preferred format for graphs and line art (retains quality when enlarging/zooming in). MS Office files (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
are also accepted. Resolution: Bitmap based files (i.e. with .tiff or jpeg extension) require a resolution of at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). Line art
should be supplied with a resolution of 600 dpi.
Format: TIFF, EPS or PDF. MS Office files (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) are also accepted provided they meet certain conditions. For more information, see below.
Colour: Please note that images supplied in colour will be published in colour online and black and white in print (unless otherwise arranged). Therefore, it is important that you supply images that are comprehensible in black and white as well (i.e. by using colour with a distinctive pattern or dotted lines). The captions should reflect this by not using words indicating colour.
Dimension: Check that the artworks Supplied match or exceed the dimensions of the journal. Image cannot be scaled up after origination Fonts: The lettering used in the Artwork should not vary too much in size and type (usually Time New Roman/12 font as a default).
Figures/Charts and Tables Figures/charts and tables created in MS Word should have their positions Clearly marked in the main text rather than at the end of the document. Figures and other files created outside Word (i.e. Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, TIFF, EPS, and PDF) should be submitted separately. Please add a placeholder note in the running text (i.e. “[insert Figure1.]”).
Permissions: Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders For reproducing any illustrations, tables, Figures or lengthy quotations Previously Published elsewhere.
Aim | Objective | Scope
ELMS is a peer reviewed open access journal, published as the official journal of the Cameroon Council for Educational Leadership and Management Society (CCELMS), Cameroon. ELMS is publishing in both online (Electronic and Print-hardcopy) versions. The journal aims to publish papers of high quality and strives to promote scholarly debate across a broad coverage of topics with a flexible editorial policy, accepting submission in any of the leadership, management and administration areas within the journal scope which covers all leadership, management and administration aspects of economic, social, cultural, good governance, human and environmental sustainability challenges in the world.
It is a fact that educational establishments in most developing countries struggle with intense pressures in their efforts to deliver higher standards of education across a broader curriculum, with fewer resources. There is no doubt that administrators, manager and leaders are the main component to any educational progress and the burden of responsibility increasingly falls on them to adapt positively to external pressures and catalyse action. Secondly, due to the rapid change in the teaching-learning process, educational policy, technological innovations etc., there is lot many factors to discuss and develop. The challenges faced by the administrators will be analyzed in (Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Studies, which presents an account of the latest research and practice taking place in specific national or regional contexts, papers consider issues and themes of interest that transcend single national and international context.
The journal covers a broad range of topics in educational leadership, management and administration, including increasing equality and diversity in educational leadership, social justice and equity in education policies, school and organizational leadership, innovations in educational governance and governing, school and organizational improvement, professional and teacher leadership, research students’ communities. Further it will cover the ethical and moral values, teacher/lecturer-student relationships, institutional finance, and human subjectivity in the sound educational organizations, educational policy and role of research in the educational institution.