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TETFund sponsored 30,000 lecturers for Masters, PhDs in 10 years – Bogoro

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund), the interventionist agency for higher institutions in the country, has said that no fewer than 30,000 lecturers have been sponsored within the last 10 years for Master’s and PhD programmes in local and foreign institutions.

Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, who disclosed this at the 10th anniversary of the agency, also noted that the Fund had so far supported over 71,263 lecturers under its Teachers’ Supervision Programme.

 

According to him, in a conscious effort to support the capacity of lecturers in public tertiary educational institutions, the agency created the Academic Staff Training and Development Programme, under which about 30,000 lecturers to date had been sponsored for the postgraduate programmes.

 

Bogoro said: “Considering the vital role that libraries play in educational institutions, TETFund has also allocated substantial funds to public federal and state tertiary institutions for the acquisition of library books, e-library resources and academic manuscript development to books in order to promote and support research, teaching and learning.

 

“So far, the agency has procured over 2,080,041 books for use in the libraries; 152,844 E-Resources and 380,778 equipment and furniture distributed across public tertiary institutions in the country.

 

I am pleased to inform you that upon recommendation of the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that TETFund completes the National Library which symbolises institutional repository of knowledge and research globally.”

 

Similarly, the Executive Secretary reiterated that the agency remained committed to its core values, which include democratic decision-making and management style; respect for human and socio-economic rights of all staff; transparency and accountability, originality, creativity and pursuit of excellence and efficiency.

 

Besides, he also noted that TETFund in the last 10 years is committed to respect for the view-point and interest of government, tax payers, beneficiaries and other stakeholders; belief in wide-scale consultation with stakeholders; promotion of transparency and accountability by the beneficiaries of TETFund.

 

This was even as he added that in marking 10 years of impactful transformation of public tertiary educational institutions, the agency would ensure a resolute commitment to continuously contribute positively to making public tertiary institutions in the country truly globally competitive and to the overall economic and technological development of the country.

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