Aide memoire on the final report on the technical feasibility study for the African Institute for Higher Technical Training and Research

Abstract

The report presents an overall faithful reflection of the objectives of the Institute which it reassuringly apprehends, and a consistent evolutionary development of the curricular resources and infrastructural supports for realizing them, if anything erring on the side of caution in the, growth of operations. This is evidenced in its "non-dedicated space" approach and the implications of shared facilities and equipment: but it could affect the take-off schedules of individual centres whenever the technological servicing of a centre inter-disciplinary needs require appreciable contributions by such later-starting centers as, in particular, the Centre for Electronics and Communications Technology, the Inter-disciplinary Industrial Production Centre and the Centre for basic sciences and medical technology. It is still necessary to define fully the substitute arrangements for providing in the early phase the services required from such Centres, and this will be taken up by the core staff of the Institute as soon as they come on board; but as shown below they will also need some preparatory enabling actions by the Host Government.