Eastern Polytechnic is a major university located primarily in Kenema

Kenema

Kenema is the third largest city in Sierra Leone and the largest city in the Eastern Province with a population of 128,402 in the 2004 census and a more recent estimate of 169,937...

, the third largest city of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

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. along with the Kenema campus, Eastern Polytechnic was designed as a multi-campus institution with a campus at Bunumbu in the Kailahun District

Kailahun District

Kailahun District is a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is Kailahun. The other major towns in the district include Segbwema, Koindu, Pendembu and Daru. As of 2010, the district has a population of 395,957 ....

, another at Woama in the Kono District

Kono District

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. 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 Polytechnic college 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 teachers

Teachers

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, tradesmen, technicians and technologists.

Current programmes

The school offer a number of programmes leading to a certificate

Academic certificate

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s, diploma

Diploma

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 or degree

Academic degree

An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...

 in English studies

English studies

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, engineering

Engineering

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, business management, accounting, nursing

Nursing

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, criminology

Criminology

Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society...

 carpentry

Carpentry

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, plumbing

Plumbing

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, electrician

Electrician

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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 degree in Nursing.
• Bachelor degree in business management
• Bachelor degree in science
• Bachelor degree in English studies
• Bachelor degree in accounting
• Bachelor degree in criminology

Certificate and diplomat programmes

• Electrician
  Electrician
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• Carpentry
• Plumbing
• construction work
• and much more

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.