35, 000 Scholars Benefit In Tetfund Scholarship Scheme

ABOUT 35, 000 scholars in public tertiary institutions have benefitted in the TETFUND Scholarship for Academic Staff programme which commenced in 2008.

Acting Director of Academic Staff Training and Development, Abdullahi Imam, who stated this when the representatives of the TETFUND scholars paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary of TETFUND, Arc. Sonny Echono in Abuja, said N185 billion have been expended for the project.

He explained that the project was established with the sole aim of training and up scaling the educational capacity of the academic staff of beneficiary institutions, adding that the project is the second in expenditure after infrastructural projects of the Fund.

Imam sought the Executive Secretary’s approval to have a TETFUND Scholars Alumni, which he said would help identify areas of specialisation and pool them into a critical mass of knowledgeable workforce and change agents for the development of the nation.

He added that the Alumni, through its planned journals on issues like innovation and entrepreneurship, science, engineering and technology, art, humanities and social science would help to prevent or curtail intellectual flight.

“Next is the compilation of soft copies of their thesis in order to have a repository for the National Library/ State. We are not only thinking of the database, we want to have a repository of their thesis so that it would pass to the libraries for reference purposes,” he said.

While speaking also on the plans to showcase the capacities, competence and the scholars by developing a database for the Alumni, Imam noted that the scholars would serve, as a voluntary advisory house on national research needs, institutional collaboration and industry partnership.