Higher Technician Diploma (BTS) in Human Resources Management – International & Digital Track

A Cameroonian professional core. International and digital skills on top.

120 academic reference credits — 120

Workload structured for comparability with international short-cycle higher-education frameworks. These are LES reference credits, not automatically ECTS or national BTS credits. University credit from Saylor University or another provider is issued by that institution under its own rules.

Curriculum designed against the Cameroonian BTS Human Resources (GRH) skills and benchmarked with HR practice in France, Canada and the United States. It is an LES programme: it is not presented as the national BTS diploma, which only MINESUP awards after its national examination.

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Who this programme is for

• Baccalauréat or GCE Advanced Level holders, or equivalent
• Learners who want to start quickly in HR, payroll or personnel administration
• Office assistants and secretaries who already handle personnel files
• Learners planning a later Bachelor’s/Licence in HR, management or industrial relations
• Working adults admitted through the admission review

Career outcomes

• HR Assistant
• Recruitment Assistant
• Payroll Assistant
• Junior Personnel Administrator
• Training Assistant
• Junior HR Officer
• HRIS / HR Data Assistant
• Office / HR Administrator

Skills at the end of the programme

• Manage personnel files and produce everyday HR documents.
• Take part in payroll processing and follow social and tax obligations (CNPS, IRPP).
• Prepare and follow recruitment and onboarding processes.
• Contribute to training and skills-development actions.
• Apply the basics of labour law and industrial relations.
• Use Excel, an HRIS and HR reporting tools.
• Produce simple indicators: headcount, absenteeism, turnover, payroll mass and recruitment.
• Communicate professionally in French and English in an HR setting.
• Explain the main differences between HR practice in Cameroon, France, Canada and the United States.
• Use AI responsibly to assist HR tasks without replacing human judgement.

Four-semester roadmap

Semester 1 — Foundations — 30 credits

• GRH101 — Introduction to Human Resources Management (4) — What an HR department does, who it serves, and how it is organised in a Cameroonian company.
• GRH102 — Principles of Management (3) — Planning, organising, leading and controlling, seen from the HR office.
• GRH103 — Economics and the Business Environment (3) — Markets, prices, employment and the CEMAC context a company operates in.
• GRH104 — Financial Accounting I (SYSCOHADA) (3) — The accounting cycle under SYSCOHADA, with the personnel accounts HR works with.
• GRH105 — Business Mathematics (3) — Percentages, proportions and simple interest — the arithmetic behind payroll and HR indicators.
• GRH106 — Introduction to Law (3) — Sources of law in Cameroon, OHADA, contracts and the courts — the ground under labour law.
• GRH107 — Professional Communication (3) — Writing and speaking clearly to employees, managers and administrations.
• GRH108 — Office Software and Collaborative Tools (3) — Word, Excel, email and shared drives used the way an HR office needs them.
• GRH109 — Professional English I (3) — Everyday workplace English: introductions, emails, phone calls and simple documents.
• GRH110 — Study Methods and Research Skills (2) — Learning online, finding reliable sources, citing them, and writing a structured report.

Semester 2 — Personnel administration and labour law — 30 credits

• GRH201 — Personnel Administration (4) — From hiring formalities to the exit certificate: every document an HR assistant keeps.
• GRH202 — Organisational Behaviour (3) — Why people behave as they do at work: motivation, teams, culture and change.
• GRH203 — Sociology of Organisations (2) — Power, rules and informal networks — how organisations really work.
• GRH204 — Financial Accounting II and Costing (3) — Closing entries, staff cost analysis and the cost of a hire.
• GRH205 — Statistics for HR (3) — Describing a workforce with numbers: distributions, averages, dispersion and simple charts.
• GRH206 — Labour Law I — The Employment Contract (4) — The Cameroonian Labour Code from hiring to the day-to-day contract.
• GRH207 — Corporate and Internal Communication (2) — Informing, consulting and listening to employees across sites and languages.
• GRH208 — Professional Excel (3) — The spreadsheet skills HR uses every week: functions, lookups, filters and pivot tables.
• GRH209 — Professional English II — English for HR (3) — HR vocabulary, job interviews, policies and employee emails in English.
• GRH210 — Tutored Project I (3) — A team project with a real organisation: observe its HR practice and report on it.

Semester 3 — HR professional practice — 30 credits

• GRH301 — Recruitment and Selection (4) — A fair, structured hiring process from the job description to onboarding.
• GRH302 — Payroll I (3) — From gross to net: building a Cameroonian payslip line by line.
• GRH303 — Labour Law II — Collective Relations and Termination (3) — Staff representatives, unions, discipline and the end of the contract.
• GRH304 — Training and Skills Development (3) — Finding training needs, building a plan and proving it worked.
• GRH305 — Compensation and Benefits (2) — Fair pay structures, the minimum wage and the benefits that keep people.
• GRH306 — Occupational Health and Safety (3) — Preventing accidents, managing them when they happen, and declaring them correctly.
• GRH307 — HR Information Systems (HRIS) (3) — Choosing, setting up and using HR software for records, leave, time and reporting.
• GRH308 — Excel for HR and Dashboards (3) — Headcount, absenteeism, turnover and payroll indicators in a monthly dashboard.
• GRH309 — CNPS, Social and Tax Obligations (3) — What the employer declares and pays each month, and how to stay compliant.
• GRH310 — Tutored Project II (3) — Solve a real HR problem for a partner organisation and present your solution.

Semester 4 — Professional transition — 30 credits

• GRH401 — Professional Internship and BTS Report (10) — A supervised placement in an HR department, a weekly log, a report and a defence.
• GRH402 — Capstone HR Project (5) — An HR toolkit for a real organisation: diagnosis, procedures, payroll check and dashboard.
• GRH403 — Payroll II and Salary Taxation (3) — Special cases: absences, leave pay, end-of-contract settlements and annual declarations.
• GRH404 — Careers and Performance Management (3) — Annual reviews, objectives, promotion and succession that people trust.
• GRH405 — Industrial Relations and Conflict Management (2) — Preventing and settling disputes with staff delegates, unions and the Labour Inspectorate.
• GRH406 — HR Analytics and Power BI (3) — Turning HR data into decisions: clean data, the right indicators and a clear dashboard.
• GRH407 — International HRM — Cameroon, France, Canada, USA (2) — How HR practice differs across four countries, and how to work for a multinational.
• GRH408 — AI for Human Resources (2) — Using AI responsibly for job descriptions, screening, training and HR analysis.

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The learner journey

• Admission review
• Personal learning plan
• LES lessons in French and English
• Nova knowledge checks and coaching
• Workplace simulations
• Labs on real HR files
• Case studies
• Free university courses (Saylor, OpenLearn, ILO)
• Tutored projects
• Internship
• Capstone HR toolkit
• Verified portfolio
• Job or Bachelor progression

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