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Njala University college (NUC) is a university in the cities of Njala and Bo, Sierra Leone. It has temporarily moved to Freetown. It is the second largest university in the country after Fourah Bay College. Bo, Sierra Leone Satelite view of Bo (Landsat image viewed using NASA World Wind software) The city of Bo also known as Bo Town is the capital and administrative center of Bo District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. ...
Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast. ...
Fourah Bay College (founded in 1827 as the first western-style university in West Africa) is a university in Fourah Bay, Freetown, Sierra Leone under the banner of the University of Sierra Leone (from 1966 to 2005) and formerly affiliated with Durham University (from 1876 - 1967). ...
History
NUC was originally created as part of the University of Sierra Leone (USL) in 1964 with the help of USAID and offered degrees in conjunction with the University of Illinois. Subsequent legislation in 1972 paired Fourah Bay and Njala under the University of Sierra Leone act, where the presidents of each institution switched the presidency of the USL on a biennial basis. This continued until 2005, when the University act separated Fourah Bay and NUC into distinct institutions independently run. The University of Sierra Leone is the name of the former unitary public university system in Sierra Leone, which, as of May 2005, was reconstitued into the individual colleges of Fourah Bay College and Njala University college. ...
1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
USAID logo The United States Agency for International Development (or USAID) is the U.S. government organization responsible for most non-military foreign aid. ...
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Statistics As of the 1999-2000 academic year, NUC had 722 male students and 98 female, which equated to approximately 27% of Sierra Leonean college students. It had 436 male staff and 98 females.
Current schools The university commenced in August 2005 with the founding of 6 schools: - School of Education
- School of Community Health Services
- School of Social Sciences
- School of Agriculture
- School of Environmental Sciences
- School of Technology
Bo campus Bo campus has 3 schools, Education, Community Health Services and Social Sciences.
Njala campus Njala campus has the other 3 schools, including Agriculture, Environmental Sciences and Technology as well as the University secretariat. However, as of the 2005-2006 year, New England Ville in Freetown was temporarily home to all of Njala's facilities, pending the rebuilding of Njala's campus.
Notable people Joe Robert Pemagbi (born 22 November 1945) is a Sierra Leonean diplomat. ...
The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ...
External links - Official University website
- Sierra Leone Encyclopedia 2006 - NUC
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