Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology
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Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science & Technology is one of the six public universities in SL Here morality was the key for all graduates of the college.
The Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, better known as "EBKUST" is one of the six public universities in Sierra Leone. Our strategic mission focuses on the generation and acquisition of needs-specific knowledge determined by a global economy. The EBKUST in Perspective
Upon cabinet approval, a bill was sent to parliament in June 2014, amending the Universities Act 2005 to estab
lish the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology; and another (The Polytechnics (Amendment) Act, 2014) to “delete the Makeni Polytechnic and Portloko polytechnic from the Schedule of the Polytechnic Act 2001 because theses institutions have been upgraded to university status under the (Amendment) Act 2014”
On the 17th day of September 2014, this was signed into law; the Universities (Amendment) Act 2014 establishing the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, comprising;
1. “The Magburaka University College” incorporating the Islamic College, Magburaka and the Government Technical Institute, Magburaka;
2. “The Makeni University College” incorporating the Makeni Polytechnic and Teko Veterinary Institute; and
3. “The Portloko University College”
4. Any other institution that may, on the advice on the Tertiary Education Commission, be constituted as Campus by Statutory Instrument made by the Minister. The Secretariat of the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, in the heart of the Tonkolili District, with campuses in the three northern-district-headquarter towns of Makeni (in Bombali), Portloko (in Portloko) and Magburaka (in Tonkolili)
The university does not have a long history but the constituent institutions do have thriving history and purpose built campuses to leverage though with a huge need for rehabilitation and upscaling. the former women’s college and later Portloko staffs college that now constitute the Portloko campus, was the only tertiary institution for women that trained and certified authentic and diligent female staffs who have stood the test of time in the teaching vocation. The now Makeni campus was first established as a catholic college, the S.t Augustine’s college, and later became the Makeni staff’s, which then morphed into the Northern polytechnic. The impact created by staffs from the college was of no mean feat. The former veterinary institute at Teko, which is another location of the Makeni campus, was the headquarter for veterinary research in the subregion. This now sadly stands in ruins. The former Islamic college that now houses the secretariat, and the former government technical institute, otherwise referred to as the trade center in Magburaka, now the institute of technical and vocational education and training in the faculty of engineering were the pride for Islamic and technical education in the northern region. These were all established to provide a holistic education for corpus, anima et spirit (body, mind, and spirit)
Though not limited to the following there are six strategic pillars that guide the operations of the university. These include ;
1. Widening access and participation-providing for financially needy students from poor rural homes
2. Provision of relevant and high-quality academic programs
3. Intensifying performance in research and innovation
4. Strengthening capacity for excellence in delivery
6. Integrity, transparency and accountability in all undertakings
7. character development and love of country
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