Principal's Welcome Note
On behalf of the ESIS Board of Directors and Team of Staff, I am so thrilled to welcome you to Earth Sciences Institute of Shinyanga, a unique place for everyone. With our straightforward values and commitment to customers, we always vow to make “Quality Our First Priority”.
We are the only private technical institution producing mining technicians at the certificate and diploma level in the mining industry in Tanzania. We hope that as you read these notes and browse our website (www.esis.ac.tz) you will start seeing just how unique we are.
We strive to achieve very high academic standards in line with our vision of “Becoming the center of technical education excellence”. Students come here and are inspired to do their best. They work hard not only to achieve their hopes and dreams but also the hopes and dreams of their families.
ESIS as a motivated family, its corporate culture, and the values we hold are the key factors to our success.
Life at ESIS is not only about academic excellence but also about real-life experiences for our staff and students. The great strength of the college is the teamwork, confidence, and motivation. The students come here from all over Tanzania sharing common aspirations, and value learning, respect, and appreciation. They are all amazed by the skills and expertise of their tutors. They also find that ESIS is small enough to feel like their second home they can rely on. In ESIS, we leave enough room and environments for young people to develop the skills, self-confidence, and maturity they will require in their adult and employment lives.
Our classes, dormitories, and labs are located in Shinyanga municipality so that practical and all field visits are done easily and frequently near mine sites. As I said before, college life is not only about academics, students are surrounded by choices of sports and games so that their campus life is always holistic.
ESIS is a unique and exciting mining institute where young men and women can grow to a discern life and honorable future.
I look forward to seeing you here.
From The Office of Principal
Our Story
The idea to establish a college that offers mining-related training to Tanzania was initiated by former geologist graduates from the University of Dar es Salaam with a handful of support from other few friends. This idea is rooted in the fact that Tanzania's mid-cadre technicians in the sector of minerals are very few compared to their graduate counterparts. The establishment of ESIS aims affirmatively at complementing the government’s effort to improve the petroleum and mining sector and hence contributing to the national economy. It also complements the millennium goals of eradicating ignorance and poverty. One of the plans of ESIS is to have the best training curricula in a vast spectrum of Earth Sciences to include Mining, Mineral Processing, Gemology, and Petroleum Geology, to mention a few. An obvious fact that has been driving ESIS to embark on training technicians (NTAs) is that the technicians (e.g. Geology, Mining, Mineral processing, and gemology technicians) ratio to Geologists, Mining Engineers, Mineral Processing Engineers, and Gemologists is quoted to be 1:5 thus more technical personnel are needed in larger numbers at the order of 5 times more than the number required for professionals (or knowledge-based professionals). Experience has also shown that, to date, the petroleum and mining sector continues to employ non-skilled technicians (in-service trained technicians) due to a lack of enough qualified technicians that can assist Mining Engineers, Geologists, or Mineral Processing Engineers. This is what motivated these enthusiastic former geologists to commit every resource they have and time to ensure this critical education institution is established, developed, and stands stable to offer the planned training so as to bridge this large gap and help the government of Tanzania reach its goal of balancing the available gap of technicians and graduates in the field in question.
About ESIS
Earth Sciences Institute of Shinyanga (ESIS) is a Private Technical Institute registered by the National Council for Technical Education of Tanzania (NACTE) with Reg. No REG/EOS/041 to offer Geosciences-related courses. ESIS’s head office is located in Shinyanga Municipality at Open University of Tanzania Shinyanga offices
ESIS uses NACTE validated curricula and is currently offering Exploration and Mining Geology from Basic Certificate to Diploma. ESIS also offers Petroleum Geology from Basic Certificate to Diploma.
In the first 10 years, ESIS is intended to offering certificates and diplomas in earth science fields that are competence based - so called National Technical Awards (NTAs) in accordance to National Council for Technical Education (NACTE). Latter on, ESIS shall begin to offer higher levels of competence based system that are/shall be equivalent to degrees (Bachelor and later on Masters and finally PhDs) in the field of Earth Sciences and under the same board, NACTE.
Vision and Mission
Vision
Earth Sciences Institute of Shinyanga is envisage to becoming the center of technical education excellence in Tanzania
Mission
Earth Sciences Institute of Shinyanga's mission is to mobilize all possible local resources (human and material) to produce competent mid-cadre technicians who will serve in Tanzania's mining industry. The Institute will employ qualified and dedicated professionals and utilize the Classical Natural Laboratories within selected dedicated centers.
-We are committed to implementing the mission by upholding values such as commitment, self-drive, transparency, trustworthiness, teamwork spirit, teaching ethics, and student-centeredness.
Courses Offered
Total Assessment Distribution
- Course work60%
- End of Semester Examination40%
- Total Assessment Score100%