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The Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) is a technical vocational training institute in Arandis,
The Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) is a technical vocational training institute in Arandis, Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
, established in 1991. It had 4,000 students and 270 staff , Eckhart Mueller was its executive director until he was murdered with his deputy on 15 April 2019. NIMT offers courses in mining, manufacturing and engineering. In 2007, De Beers
De Beers Group is an international corporation that specializes in diamond mining, diamond exploitation, diamond retail, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. The company is active in open-pit, large-scale alluvial and c ...
donated N$2.1 million to open a second northern campus and in November of that year a campus was opened in Tsumeb
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. NIMT also operates a campus in Keetmanshoop
Keetmanshoop is a city in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia, lying on the Trans-Namib Railway from Windhoek to Upington in South Africa. It is named after Johann Keetman, a German industrialist and benefactor of the city.
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in southern Namibia.
NIMT produces between 300 and 500 graduates a year who go on to be employed by the mining industry of Namibia.
See also
*Education in Namibia
Education in Namibia is compulsory for 10 years between the ages of 6 and 16. ''This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain. There are approximately 1900 schools in Namibia of which 100 are privately owned. Nami ...
* List of universities in Namibia
A list of universities in Namibia.
There are three institutions in Namibia considered universities:
# Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST, formerly the Polytechnic of Namibia, PoN) - Windhoek
# University of Namibia (UNAM) - Windhoe ...
References
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