A package of projects to enhance the Thiès Polytechnic School

The Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Mary Teuw Niane, spoke on Saturday about a package of ongoing and upcoming projects that fit into a dynamic of "rising in power "of the Polytechnic School of Thiès with a capacity of reinforced reception, relays the Senegalese press agency.

Evoking the other structures of formation of engineers of the country, of which the polytechnic school of Saint-Louis , Mr. Niane noted that "this training of engineers will continue at the same time as the increase of the capacity of reception of the Polytechnic School of Thiès."

It was addressed to journalists at the end of the ceremony of exit of the 41-th promotion of the EPT in the auditorium of said establishment. "We are building 200 beds at the school level," he said, adding that President Macky Sall's plans "plan to build 500 beds" at the school. EFA. The goal is to increase the capacity of the center to 1,000 beds, he said at the ceremony.

He added that 8 laboratories and a center of innovation and production are under construction within EFA. "All this goes in the direction of the rise to the level of this school", he emphasized.

"The polytechnic school grows, it always has the excellence on the shoulder " as evidenced by its selection method and the results it obtains in national and international competitions.

Mary Teuw Niane also welcomed what the EPT is putting in implemented its strategic plan "with diligence" in relation with its partners. He expressed the will of the State of "to massify" the number of engineers in terms, "to the ambitions of the emerging Senegal Plan".

In addition to Polytechnic School of Thiès, Senegal trains engineers at the Ecole Polytechnique (ESP) in several fields, at the Institute of Earth Sciences (IST), at the Faculty of Science and Technology, at the UFR Thiès engineering sciences, at the National School of Agriculture (ENSA) Thiès.

"The University Gaston Berger (UGB) of Saint-Louis saw, this year, the first promotion in civil engineering at the Polytechnic School of St. Louis " he noted. The arrival, "in a year", of the Amadou Moctar Mbow University, with 3 poles, including the economics, but especially the technological pole, which will offer "about fifty jobs, many of which are engineering trades, masters in science, technology and mathematics "will allow Senegal to mass up to the ambitions of the PES need (as engineers)" he assured.

"To this we must add the University of Sine-Saloum, Elhadji Ibrahima Niasse which will start in September and which will allow us, with its 30,000 students, to put on the market all specialties in the field of agriculture. "