Bahir Dar University is a university in the city of Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara National Regional State in Ethiopia.
The University is a combination of two smaller institutes formed
earlier, after the departments were gradually raised to a degree level
starting from 1996.
Bahir Dar University was created from the merger of two former higher
institutions. The first was Bahir Dar Polytechnic Institute, which
formed one of the faculties of the University, was established in 1963
under the technical cooperation between the Government of USSR and the Imperial Government of Ethiopia.
The objective of the institute was to train skilled technicians in the
fields of Agro-Mechanics, Industrial Chemistry and Metal, Textile, Electrical and Wood
Technologies. The Institute had to undergo number of program changes
within the area of technology until the commencement of the Engineering
degree program 1996. Throughout these program changes, the institute did
all what it could to supply the labor market with the best technicians
who are now running most of the businesses in the industrial,
educational, agricultural and other sectors.
The other institution of higher learning was Bahir Dar Teachers
College, which had been established more than three decades ago. Its
original name was the Academy of Pedagogy, and it was created in 1972 by
the tripartite agreement of the Imperial Government, UNESCO, and UNDP
and started actual work in the following year under the auspices of the
Ministry of Education and Fine Arts. Its general objective was to train
multipurpose primary education professionals capable of adopting
primary education to rural life and rural development. Its specific
objectives were to train primary school teacher trainers, supervisors,
educational leaders, adult education organizers and community
development agents.
Soon after its beginning, however, the program only focused on offering pedagogics as a major area of study and Amharic,
English, Geography and Mathematics as minor courses. Later, diploma
programs were introduced when in 1996 the diploma offering departments
were raised to degree level. All in all the college provided instructors
to the different levels of the education sector through its regular and
extension programs.
The two institutions were integrated into Bahir Dar University
following the Council of Ministers regulation no. 60/1999. The
University was inaugurated on May 6, 2000, and the Polytechnic Institute
and the Teachers College became the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty
of Education, respectively. In addition, the university added two more
faculties, that of Business and Economics and the faculty of Law, which
were established in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Bahir Dar University was
officially inaugurated in May 2001.
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