Indian Journal of Science and Technology
http://www.indjst.org Vol.1 No.1 (Nov. 2007)
iSee© category: Know my institute “EIT” by Gajendran N
Indian Society for Education and Environment
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Eritrea Institute of Technology: an innovative centre imparting knowledge and discipline
Natarajan Gajendran
Director, Curriculum Development & Review, EIT, Mainefhi, Eritrea (email: gajend6an@yahoo.com)
IndJST is proud to showcase the highlights of
Eritrea Institute of Technology (EIT) - a centre
adapting curriculum that ensures value-based
education. EIT is as new to the academic world as
IndJST to the sea of journals and as The State of
Eritrea to the face of the World Nations. However,
the birth of EIT has marked greater impact which
can be a small step but the giant leap in the tertiary
education sector of Eritrea. EIT was established in
2004 to catalyze the vision and mission of the
country which
is centered on the National
Education Policy as part of ongoing National
Reconstruction Process. Youths of Eritrea played
vital role for its Freedom and have been actively
participating in the Nation Building process. EIT
was entrusted to rehabilitate the youths of war-
returned veterans, along with those backlogs from
the regular schooling, towards the corridor of
academic excellence. The massive EIT campus
was found with hundreds of furnished classrooms
and also equipped with boarding and lodging
facilities to educate about 10,000 students at a
time which can be the world record in its own way.
EIT has succeeded in the challenge of such twin
task by conceiving its own curricula to offer
hundreds of courses from 21 departments of 4
colleges without gestation period. It found an
innovative method of mixing the expertise of few
hundred expatriate staff with local doyens along
with Eritrean Diaspora. EIT strives to foster all-
round