Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has disclosed that over the years, it has sponsored 23,271 academic staff of public tertiary institutions for PhD programmes.
Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arch. Sonny Echono who disclosed this while presenting a paper at the 26th seminar of Nigerian Academy of Education in Abuja, stated 4,598 of the lecturers were sponsored to foreign institutions, while 18,673 attended institutions within Nigeria.
He added that 15,977 academic staff were also sponsored for the Masters degree programme; 3,525 in foreign institutions and 12,452 undertook their studies in local institutions within the country.
Echono also disclosed that 911 scholars were sponsored for Benchwork in foreign institutions and 872 academic staff for Post-Doctoral programmes specially targeted at strengthening scientific research capacity of the country.
“Also, 31,071 academic staff of tertiary institutions were sponsored to attend international conferences in foreign countries, while 46,604 were sponsored for local conferences, bringing the total scholars sponsored for academic conferences to 77,675.
“Furthermore, 110,432 academic staff of colleges of education were sponsored to conduct supervision of teaching practice across the country,” he said.
The Executive Secretary also revealed that TETFund had funded over 5,525 physical infrastructural projects and provided over 576 faculty/departmental libraries in tertiary institutions across the country.
