Comboni College for Science and Technology (CCST), originally Comboni College for Computer Science, is a private college in
Khartoum
Khartoum or Khartum is the capital city of Sudan as well as Khartoum State. With an estimated population of 7.1 million people, Greater Khartoum is the largest urban area in Sudan.
Khartoum is located at the confluence of the White Nile – flo ...
,
Sudan
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, established as a technical college since 2001. It goes back to the earlier school for boys, founded by
Catholic
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priests from Italy in 1929.
History
Comboni College Khartoum was founded in 1929 as a boys school by Catholic priests associated with the mission of Bishop
Daniele Comboni
Daniele Comboni, MCCJ (15 March 1831 – 10 October 1881) was an Italian Catholic Church, Catholic prelate who served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum, Vicar Apostolic of Central Africa from 1877 until his death in 1881. He worked in th ...
. It was managed by priests and monks, who arrived in Sudan to continue Comboni´s work in education. Since its beginning, the college catered to students both with an international background, but most of them were Sudanese children.
In 1999, parents asked the management to develop a post-secondary section. In 2001, this initiative led to the present Comboni College of Science and Technology (CCST) as a separate institution from the primary and secondary sections of Comboni College Khartoum.
Programs
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Computer Science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...
(CS)
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Information Technology
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...
(IT)
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English Language and Literature (Eng)
* Education and Religious Studies
* Short Courses in computer skills, languages, teaching methods and palliative care
See also
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The Catholic University of South Sudan
References
External links
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Education in Khartoum
Universities and colleges in Sudan