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The Education Project for Cameroon will increase the output of the secondary system as a whole to correspond more closely to the manpower requirements of the economy; place greater emphasis on technical and agricultural education in secondary schools; and substantially reduce the dependence of general secondary education on expatriates by increasing the output of trained Cameroonian teachers. The project would consist of the construction or expansion, and equipment of three primary school teacher training colleges, a secondary school teacher training college, fifteen general secondary schools, four technical schools, and a post-secondary agricultural college. The project would also include technical assistance to provide experts to reinforce the Ministry of Education's planning services and specialist teachers in such subjects as engineering and farm management. The project would be carried out by a Project Unit within the Ministry of Education. The Chief of the Unit and the Project Architect have already been appointed by the Government and are acceptable to the Association. The Government has undertaken to make available promptly all lands required for the project.