January 31, 2022
By Ilyasa Baa
As the construction of the building which will host the ICT department of The Evangelical College of Theology (TECT) is in progress, the college administration has deemed it fit to equip the college with solar electrification.
The ongoing solarization project, according to the Principal, Rev. Dr. Warren Manso Fornah, will supply more power to the college for the smooth running of the ICT classes and the entire campus at Jui in the Western Rural District.
He told this medium during an exclusive interview at his office that when this solar project is actualised and fully completeted, it will encourage people to enrol with them; especially for those who are interested in night classes.
He admitted that millions of Leones is spent every month just on fuel to run the generator when there is no electricity supply from EDSA which is the national source. “In few weeks, the entire campus in the Western Area will be solar electrified”, assured Rev. Dr. Fornah. He went on that this drive will put the college in the list of sober minded institutions matching up with the global framework.” It will also amplify our ICT department”, he added.
Admission into the college has dramatically improved following a scrutinized holistic approach introduced by the new Principal. In December 2021, seventy students graduated. During the Covid period, the college, in its desire to adhere to precautions, introduced online method of teaching its students. Campism;Blackman,
Whiteman business is not tolerated at TECT as global leadership and nurturing of core values is the focus of the college established in 1964 primarily to train Pastors and church workers. Rapidly,TECT developed secular courses in 1990 to make way for the training of the workforce including civil and public servants.
Since its establishment, it will interest readers to know that the college is not government subverted but dependent wholly on fees and supports coming from the United Breadren in Christ, Huntingdon Connection, Baptist Convention and Wesleyan Churches in Sierra Leone. For over twenty years, TECT has been affiliated with the University of Sierra Leone currently offering Masters Programmes.
The college is accredited with the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC), National Council for Technical, Vocational and other Academic Awards (NCTVA), the Association of Christian Theological Education in Africa (ACTEA), University of Sierra Leone (USL) and the Ministry of Tertiary and Technical Education.
The college has campuses in Makeni, Bo and Kenema and the Principal who had risen from the position of lecturer to Estate Officer to the highest position within the college administration which he now occupies, has been in the college for the past fifteen.