University of Makeni
| University of Makeni | |
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| motto |
Faith, Love and Justice (Faith, Love and Justice) |
| founding | 2005 (2009 university) |
| Sponsorship | private, Roman Catholic |
| place | Makeni |
| country |
 Sierra Leone
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| Chancellor | Bishop Natale Paganelli |
| Students | 1,700 (2016) |
| Networks | FIUC |
| Website | unimak.edu.sl |
The University of Makeni (UNIMAK) is a university in Sierra Leone .
It was founded in 2005 as The Fatima Institute in Makeni and received university status in 2009 . The University of Makeni was the first private university in the country and had campaigned for the admission of private universities in the University Act of 2005. Patron of the university is Bishop Emeritus Reverend George Biguzzi ( ret. ).
The university has a main campus ( Fatima College ) and since 2010 a second campus ( St. Joseph's College of Management and ICT ) not far from Makeni in Yoni . In 2014 UNIMAK had around 1200 students. With the outbreak of the Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone , enrollments fell, but rose again to 1,700 students by 2016.
Faculties and Centers
- Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Department of Development Studies
- Department of Special Education
- Department of Human Resource Management
- Department of Mental Health (Mental Health)
- Center for Social Transformation
Web links
- Official site of the University (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Vice Chancellor Prof Fr Joseph Turay: UNIMAK Celebrates Fourth Convocation . In: UNIMAK - the University of Makeni, Sierra Leone . February 19, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
- ↑ Members. In: www.fiuc.org. International Federation of Catholic Universities, accessed September 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b About Us. UNIMAK. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ↑ Universities Act (2005) of Sierra Leone (Section 43. Establishment of private universities) . Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ^ David O'Kane: Towards 'Audit Culture' in Sierra Leone? Understanding 'quality assurance' at the University of Makeni . In: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle / Saale Working Paper No. 155 (2014) . Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ↑ Providing Support to the Legal Profession and Institutions in Sierra Leone: ASJP Legal Research visit - Summary findings, June 2014 . In: The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) . Archived from the original on October 22, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
Coordinates: 8 ° 53 '14.7 " N , 12 ° 3' 22.2" W.