IBTE Mechanical Campus, formerly known as Mechanical Training Centre (, abbreviated as ''PLM'') is a government

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Brunei Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely surrounded by t ...

and one of the campuses under the

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(IBTE). It is located in

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, a settlement in

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. The school is a post-secondary institution which provides training specifically for the purpose of being a vehicle mechanic.

History

The institution was established on 24 February 1986 with the name (Mechanical Training Centre), an independent vocational school, nevertheless overseen by the then Department of Technical Education under the

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. In 2014, the school was subsumed under the department and the latter was revamped to become an umbrella institute. The school eventually adopted its current name two years later.

References

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