IMTU allowed to resume student enrolment, classes

The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) has given a go-ahead for the International Medical and Technological University (IMTU) to resume its academic activities including processing and admission of a new intake of students for the current academic year.

According to a TCU letter to IMTU acting vice-chancellor signed by TCU executive secretary Prof. Mayunga Nkunya, the commission`s technical team was generally satisfied with the progress made by the university administration to improve the teaching and learning environment.

`These efforts need to be sustained to ensure that the college implements all TCU directives so as to see to it that eventually IMTU becomes a centre of excellence for medical students in Tanzania,` the letter read in part.

According to Prof. Nkunya, the TCU technical team visited the university on October 12, this year to ascertain the extent of implementation of directives given to IMTU and was generally satisfied.

He said the team was satisfied with the improvement of, among other things, teaching laboratories, the library, ICT infrastructure and furniture fixtures in classrooms and staff offices.

Remarkable improvement had also been made in the Microbiology and Human Anatomy laboratories.

`The team was also convinced that efforts that are in progress to complete the improvement process are in the right direction, including the procurement of additional fixtures in the Microbiology laboratory that I expect to be completed shortly,` he stressed.

He further said the team was also pleased with the quality and quantity of furniture to be fixed in the classrooms, although the number needed to be increased to match with future student enrollment and expansion projections.

IMTU management had promised to procure and fix the additional furniture in the near future.

TCU has also been impressed with the order of about 30,000 books from overseas which had gone a long way to improved stocking of IMTU`s library, whose expansion process was underway.

Major developments are also underway to improve the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure in the library; in which 30 computers have been fixed and connected in a network, making a total of 36 computers that were fully connected to the Internet.

`TCU will closely follow up, on a daily basis, implementation of the promises and further improvement of the bandwidth because the students need the computer facilities` Prof. Nkunya stressed.

Mid this year, IMTU was suspended by the commission from offering academic services to its students including enrolling new students because the college was deemed to have inadequate facilities to meet standards required by TCU.