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Located in Kenema, the Administrative Headquarter town of the Eastern Region of Sierra Leone, the Eastern Polytechnic 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 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 for youths and young adults to train as teachers, tradesmen, technicians and technologists to serve the much needed developmental aspirations of both the national and international communities.

Eastern Polytechnic was designed as a multi-campus institution with a campus at Bunumbu in the Kailahun District, another at Woama in the Kono District and the third in Kenema town for Kenema District. One of these campuses, the Bunumbu Campus, is under reconstruction and rehabilitation as a result of the massive destruction done to it by the rebel war of 1991 - 2000. We call on the donor community to support this venture because the establishment of this institution and the training of youths therein is seen as a way of averting further strife in Sierra Leone. The Kenema campus is fully operational, offering a large number of courses leading to certificates and diplomas in teaching, technology, engineering, business, management, accounting, etc.

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.

Major projects are already undertaken by the institution, the most recent of which are the construction of an ultra-modern multi storey Library and establishment of a School of Nursing. A Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.) degree programme in Secondary education is in progress while a Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) and Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) degree programmes are in their planning stages.

Our Mission at the Eastern Polytechnic is "commitment to the national educational goals as we continue to maintain excellence; provide essential service of quality human resource development as we 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 our graduates for the world of work.

As a Polytechnic institution we offer a unique opportunity for staff and students from various fields being in the same location and benefiting from the rare interpersonal relationships that the setting provides.