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The University of Technology, Mauritius (UTM) is a public university in Mauritius. The main campus lies in La Tour Koenig, Pointe aux Sables within the district of Port Louis. It was founded following the Government of Mauritius approval of the setting up of the University of Technology, Mauritius in January 2000 and the proclamation of the The University of Technology, Mauritius Act on 21 June 2000. UTM has a specialized mission with a technology focus. It applies traditional and beyond traditional approaches to teaching, training, research and consultancy. The university has been founded with the aim to play a key role in the economic and social development of Mauritius through the development of programmes of direct relevance to the country’s needs, for example in areas like technology, sustainable development science, and public sector policy and management. UTM is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and is listed in the Commonwealth Universities Handbook and in the International Handbook of Universities. UTM is also a member of the Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) - A network of public universities in the SADC region. ==Organisation== The initial phaze of the setting up of the university consisted in the merging of two public training institutions, the Mauritius Institute of Public Administration and Management (MIPAM) and the State Information Training Centre (SITRAC) into Schools. The School of Business Informatics and Software Engineering, the School of Public Sector Policy and Management and the School of Sustainable Development Science became operational since September 2000. With its sustained expansion in the following years, the University started a restructuring process in September 2008. The schools were respectively renamed as School of Innovative Technologies and Engineering (SITE), School of Business Management and Finance (SBMF) and School of Sustainable Development and Tourism (SSDT) to match their designated objects. UTM explicitly aims to co-operate with the Mauritian government and business, and to promote entrepreneurship. In-company training is part of the curriculum in the tourism management programmes. It offers programmes on a part-time and distance basis as well as flexible entry and exit points, in order to facilitate access. Many of the programmes are occupationally or vocationally directed, for example, banking and finance, or tourism management and marketing, or software engineering. It offers short course programmes such as a full-time course for higher executive officers for 15 weeks. In this orientation and approach it differs from traditional universities in the SADC.〔Glenda Kruss and Il-haam Petersen. ("Chapter 5: Analysing University-Firm Interaction in the SADC Countries" ), ''SARUA Study Series 2008: Towards a Common Future: Higher Education in the SADC Region'', South Africa, December, 2008. 〕 It is internationally recognized. Courses are run within the main campus in La Tour Koenig and its satellite centres in La Tour Koenig, Bell Village and Moka. The building of a new campus near Moka, is underway to sustain its expansion.〔Patrick Hilbert. ("ETUDES SUPERIEURES Un campus pour 8 000 étudiants à Highlands" ), ''L'Express'', Mauritius, 11 January 2010. 〕 UTM tuition fees are non subsidised, as opposed to the University of Mauritius (UoM). A Tertiary Education Commission study revealed that the percentage of students satisfied with respect to course delivery was higher at the UTM as compared to the UoM.〔Tertiary Education Commission. ("Graduate Tracer Study 2008" ), ''TEC'', Mauritius, February, 2009. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「University of Technology, Mauritius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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