Eastern technical University is a

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located in

Kenema Kenema is the third largest city in Sierra Leone (after Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone, Bo), and the largest city in the country's Eastern Province, Sierra Leone, Eastern Province. It is the capital of Kenema District and a major economic center of ...

, the third largest city of

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. along with the Kenema campus, Eastern technical University was designed as a multi-campus institution with a campus at Bunumbu in the

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, (this campus was destroyed in the Sierra Leone Civil War) another at Woama in the

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(this campus was planned after the war and two buildings were erected but the site has been abandoned). The college was established as a result of a merger of two prominent government institutions; the Bunumbu Teachers College and the Government Technical Institute. Both institutions had a long history of contribution towards education in Sierra Leone. The Eastern technical University acquired legal status as a tertiary educational institution in October 2001. Before then it had put quite a wide range of programmes in place, all geared towards providing educational opportunities to train as

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and technologists.

Current programmes

The school offer a number of programmes leading to a

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and much more. The student number on the Kenema campus is 1,500. The institution employs more than 300 workers of which over 50% are trainers/lecturers while administrative and other service staff constitute the rest.

Degree programmes

*Bachelor's degree in Nursing *Bachelor's degree in Business Management *Bachelor's degree in Science *Bachelor's degree in English Studies *Bachelor's degree in Accounting *Bachelor's degree in Criminology *Bachelor's degree in Government *Bachelor's degree in History *Bachelor's degree in Geography *Bachelor's degree in Economics

Certificate and diplomat programmes

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*Carpentry *Plumbing *Construction Work

Diploma programs

Diploma in Computer Studies Diploma in Public Health

Mission

The Eastern Polytechnic is "commitment to the national educational goals to continue to maintain excellence; provide essential service of quality human resource development to train technicians and polyvalent educators; moulding them in the best moral and spiritual traditions of the founding fathers to provide leadership in community biased educational innovations and be a most effective instrument of change and development in both the individual and the community leading to a positive influence on society." In accordance with this Mission Statement Eastern Polytechnic has graduated a good number of well-trained personnel for industry in the technical, vocational, management and educational fields. Entrepreneurial skills given to all trainees/students is a feature that particularly prepares its graduates for the world of work.

External links

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