| dc.description.abstract | The Royal Technical College of East Africa is a recent
foundation: it was established by an Act of the High Commission
on April 24th, 1954, and took in its first students in April 1956.
The purpose of the College was to provide academic facilities for
higher technological training, for professional training, for research
work, and for certain vocational training, and thus to assist in the
economic development of the East African Territories. To this
end the College has at present Faculties of Engineering, Architecture,
Commerce, Arts and Science, as well as Departments of Surveying, of
Domestic Science and of Applied Art. | en |
