Université Souleymane Niang de Matam : “Il ne s’agit pas de répéter les erreurs du passé, mais de bâtir une université contemporaine”, (DC MESRI)
Souleymane Niang College of Matam (USNM), created by decree in December 2022, is taking a decisive new step. A workshop introduced collectively consultants from the Ministry of Larger Schooling, Analysis and Innovation (MESRI), members of the technical committee, and companions to current the coaching choices of this future college.
In line with Ababacar Guèye, Chief of Workers of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs and Worldwide Commerce (MESRI), “a college is not only about buildings. It is usually about content material, an tailored coaching supply, UFRs and institutes able to assembly immediately’s challenges. Souleymane Niang College thus goals to be totally different from earlier ones, by favoring a match between coaching and employment, whereas selling native realities.
The USNM goals to be each rooted within the Matamois area and open to Senegal and the world. It would combine ancestral data, native financial realities, and nationwide growth points. As Mr. Guèye identified, “it isn’t a query of repeating the errors of the previous, however of constructing a recent college, able to coaching competent residents and assembly the wants of the nation.”
Anchored in a area with a powerful agricultural and pastoral vocation, but additionally wealthy in spiritual and cultural heritage, the USNM gives programs oriented in the direction of agriculture, livestock breeding, the extractive business, Islamic sciences and endogenous data.
Professor Mamadou Sidibé, coordinator-rector of the college, specified that six facilities have labored on the curricula to supply diversified however above all skilled coaching.
“Now we have averted normal levels. All our levels can be vocational or skilled as a way to give college students abilities that may be straight used within the job market,” he assured.
The chosen fields cowl science and expertise, engineering, economics and administration, well being, human and social sciences, arts and literature, and in addition spiritual sciences.
Development work on the USNM is progressing. The handover of the keys is scheduled for October 2026, when the college will welcome its first cohort of scholars. In its preliminary part, 1,500 college students are anticipated, with a gradual enhance of as much as 25,000 learners.
Auteur: Khady Ndoye
Publié le: Mercredi 27 Août 2025
