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University of Mines and Technology (Ghana)


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    • UMaT

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    • Descriptor

        Universities and colleges

    • Associated Locale

        Ghana

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      Mining schools and education

      (lcsh) Engineering--Study and teaching (Higher)

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  • Sources

    • found: Ghana journal of technology, September 2016:title page (University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, Ghana)
    • found: Its Website, viewed May 16, 2017:"about us" page (12th November, 2004 the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa Act 2004 (Act 677) was gazetted and thus, became a law)
    • found: UMaT at a glance, July, 2016:title page (University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, Ghana) page 4 (UMaT started as the Tarkwa Technical Institute (TTI) [not found in OCLC] on 3rd November, 1952 but was officially commissioned by the Government of Ghana (the governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Charles Nobel Arden Clarke) on 7th October, 1953; in 1961 the Government redefined the mission of TTI to incorporate the training of mining technicians and other middle level manpower for the country's mining and related industries, reorganised that same year to become the Tarkwa School of Mines (TSM) [not found in OCLC]; in 1976 TSM was affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as a faculty of the University, name TSM changed to KNUST School of Mines (KNUSTSM), Tarkwa [not found in OCLC]; the KNUSTM, Tarkwa and the Kumasi School of Mines [not found in OCLC] were put together to become the Institute of Mining and Mineral Engineering (IMME) [2 records found in OCLC]; in 1988 a University Rationalisation Committee (URC), commissioned by the Ministry of Education, recommended the development of the School and its conversion into a University; in 2000 the conversion of KNUSTSM into a University was again recommended by Louis Berger Inc. in association with Kwame Asante and Associated in the report on partial commercialisation of KNUST; in 2001 the Council of KNUST approved proposals of the Academic Board to merge the School of Mines at Kumasi and the School of Mines at Tarkwa into the Western University College of KNUST, Tarkwa [apparently did not happen]; on 3rd November, 2004, the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana passed the bill of the University of Mines and Technology into an Act of Parliament; on 11th November, 2004, the President of Ghana gave assent; on 12th November, 2004 the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa Act 2004 (Act 677) was gazetted and became a law)

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  • Change Notes

    • 2017-05-16: new
    • 2018-01-22: revised

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