The University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) is putting in place new initiatives to encourage more women to pursue engineering programmes.
At the 11th matriculation ceremony of the university, Professor J.S.Y. Kuma, Vice Chancellor of UMAT, said the university had already done a lot to encourage women to venture into engineering education in the past couple of years.
However, he said, there was the need for the university to do more than it had done already.
‘’We will, therefore, continue to evolve new initiatives to sustain the policy to urge more females to pursue engineering,” he said.
Prof. Kuma did not give figures on how many women had so far been given the opportunity to pursue the engineering programme since the university was established.
Students admitted
Five hundred and ten students were admitted this year to pursue various programmes at the university.
Out of the number, 442, representing 87 per cent
