Milton Margai Goderich Campus, Freetown, Sunday 6 December 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has launched a Le3.5 billion Skills Development Fund to improve infrastructural improvements at the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology, MMCET, and pronounced it a full Technical University.
The college, first named Milton Margai Teachers College in 1963 after the country’s first Prime Minister, Sir, Milton Margai, mainly offered Teacher’s Certificate and Teacher’s Advance Certificate courses before adding technical and vocational education, TVET.
The Community Headman in Goderich, Rev. Arthur K. Coker, said that education was the key to a nation’s development, noting that the presence of President Bio at the occasion was to show how much he valued education.