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| - The Prison Agricultural College of Technology is a distance learning college which will educate inmates all over Surea; its groundbreaking ceremony was held on July 21, 2010. Founded by the national government initiative with the purpose of fully utilizing human resource, stimulate the economy and to overcome food shortage of the country. The college was established as a branch faculty of Hondu Agricultural University. It was announced by the spokesperson from the office of the president that the college serves as the first phrase for Surea’s new urbanism. It is founded on the basis system of The Open University in the United Kingdom. The administration is based in Suyu City although it has offices and learning centers in each of Surea's urban prefectures and metropolitan cities. The college offers accredited undergraduate and graduate degrees related to agricultural science. With nearly 23,000 students to be enrolled in 2011, various learning equipments had been installed within the prisons of the nation, marking the largest allocation of budget since Hiro Lakaki's administration. It is set to be the largest academic institutions in the nation, and to qualifies as one of the world's mega institution of higher learning. In September 2011, Minause Properties's Chairman and CEO, Yakago Minause, donated 2 acre of raw land to the institution for the inmates' to do their hands-on farming training.
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