TETFund Decries ASUU Strike Acting executive secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Mallam Aliyu Na’iya, has described the on-going strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as unnecessary and highly regrettable.He said the strike which has become protracted, shouldn’t have been an option for the academic staff, rather they ought to be consolidating on the intervention of government in the sector over the years.Na’iya spoke through the deputy director, Public Relations Unit, Samuel Piwuna, who received an award from the West African Students Union Parliament (WASUP), on his behalf.He said through the Academic Staff Training and Development (ASTD) initiative of the agency, over 7,003 lecturers of the nation’s tertiary education system have benefited in various academic training programmes. According to TETFund, a breakdown of the categories of beneficiaries revealed that 890 lecturers were sponsored for PhD training outside the country while 2,132 lecturers also benefited for PhD training from various universities within the country. “Another 819 benefited from sponsorship for Masters Training in foreign universities, 3,057 benefited for Masters Training from universities within the country, while 105 lecturers were also sponsored for various Foreign Bench Works. “The above training efforts of the Intervention Agency is in line with the transformation agenda of the Federal Government aimed at ensuring the availability of the needed manpower for the development of the country through education,” he added. He said most of the beneficiaries of the programme were selected to ensure that lecturers in the tertiary institutions get further training to equip them for proper teaching in our nation’s institutions. Meanwhile, deputy speaker of WASUP, Comrade Nelson Ossaieze who presented the award on behalf of the regional student body alongside Comrade Akinyele Olasumbo, country representative of All Africa Students’ Union (AASU) commended the sterling performance of the acting executive secretary since assuming office in acting capacity. Comrade Ossaieze noted the efforts of TETFund towards making positive impact on education in Nigeria through providing needed infrastructure and intervention for all round growth of education in the country, saying that the efforts go a long way in positively affecting the West African region.
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:03:48 +0000
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