TETFund to set up 12 further investigate centres in Nigerian universities

The Tertiary Education Believe in Fund (TETFund) has reported it would before long announce 12 supplemental study centres of excellence to be sited on various campuses of Nigerian universities.

TETFund’s govt secretary, Suleiman Bogoro, disclosed this in Lagos on Monday at the opening session of a two-day workshop organised as component of the agency’s endeavours to increasing the effectiveness of Nigerian ivory towers on the world rating tables.

The workshop with the theme “Requirements for Strengthening Nigerian Universities for Bigger World Rating,” was coordinated by the immediate earlier vice-chancellor of the Lagos Point out College (LASU), Ojo, Olanrewaju Fagbohun.

Mr Bogoro blamed the lousy position status of Nigerian tertiary institutions on “politicisation of education and learning in the country, corruption, lousy funding by other arms of government” and the proliferation of “less than aggressive universities in the country”.

He stated his agency is well prepared to proper the status quo ante, incorporating that if the Asian universities could disrupt the planet rating tables by way of improved outputs and contributions to the international knowledge sector, Nigerian universities should be ready to rise to the obstacle.

He stated “The condition is so unfortunate and worrisome that it phone calls for reflection and action on the part of the federal government, the Nigerian intelligentsia and certainly the Nigerian folks. It is demanding in the sense that the success of our universities is tied to the development and development of the nation. If the Asian nations had been capable rise to these kinds of an enviable position alongside the rating of earth universities, absolutely nothing stops Nigerian universities from making related development if they are so identified.

“Some of the challenges identified as hindering the progress and overall performance of Nigerian universities in the global rating of entire world universities involve inadequate financial investment by some arms of governing administration in the development of universities, decaying infrastructure, corruption in the public college process, substantial amount of mushroom universities not deserving of status, weak perspective of Nigerian lecturers to teaching and analysis, massive figures of learners at the undergraduate stage and confined economic and physical assets, lower research out-puts, minimal overall performance on worldwide linkages and collaborations, between other people.”

Mr Bogoro added that the contributions of the existing 12 research centres which are dubbed centres of excellence, to the research pursuits in the country, educated the agency’s determination to venture into additional 12.

He, on the other hand, failed to mention when the new centres would be announced and wherever they would be located.

Workshop

In his welcome address, Mr Bogoro frowned at the current effectiveness of Nigerian universities on the international map, expressing South African and Egyptian universities dominate the African continent in conditions of greater effectiveness.

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He reported “to be a genuine large of Africa, the story of Nigerian universities need to be rewritten for good”, insisting that the progress of Nigeria as a country can only be tied to the good quality of its universities.

“The Nigerian government, in excess of the decades, is dedicated to increasing the condition. Having said that, a whole lot needs to be done to place the nation on a route to expansion and progress and there is no greater position to begin the method than in repositioning the nation’s tertiary establishments and universities which have not absolutely served the function for which they had been established,” the government secretary extra.

The chairman of the agency’s board of trustees, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, mentioned the decision of Mr Fagbohun to coordinate the workshop was due to his outstanding effectiveness within his 5-calendar year tenure as the vice-chancellor of Lagos Condition College (LASU), Ojo.

LASU was rated next very best university in the state in the 2021 Moments Increased Training (THE) earth position and rated between 501-600 universities globally.

In the meantime, speaking on the aim of the workshop, Mr Fagbohun said the discussion board will make rules for Nigerian institutions to bettering their rankings on the planet tables.

According to the former vice-chancellor, “the facilitators getting paraded to make inputs on the guidelines are the exact same persons who have served in numerous capacities globally and have aided foreign institutions to do perfectly in position.”

Some of the facilitators incorporate the former executive secretary of the Countrywide Universities Fee (NUC), Peter Okebukola a former vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), Olufemi Bamiro vice-chancellors of the University of Lagos and Obafemi Awolowo University, Olwatoyin Ogundipe and Eyitope Ogunbodede, among other folks.