The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has approved N130,000,000.00 per polytechnic towards the 2023 intervention line.
The aim is to improve skills acquisition in polytechnics across Nigeria.
Buhari Mika’Ilu, the Director of Infrastructure of the Fund, made this known at the TETFund/NBTE Sensitisation Workshop on the 2023 Zonal Intervention on Skills.
He said that the intervention would complement the National Board for Technical Education’s effort in increasing the capacities of polytechnics to deliver on their mandate.
“NBTE have been at the fore front in championing the need to have skills in the educational system in Nigeria”.
“It is in response to this, that the Fund has prioritised the 2023 Zonal Allocation to polytechnics to be geared towards reinvigorating skills acquisition in the polytechnics across the country.”
”This is to further consolidate on the efforts of NBTE of increasing the capacities of Polytechnics to deliver on their mandate”
The intervention will mainly support institutions to meet basic requirements for accreditation.
Furthermore, the focus will be on projects with academic relevance, which will address deficiencies in core areas of essential instructional materials and equipment for teaching and learning, and building capacities for equipment use.
“Therefore, the sum of N130,000,000.00 only allocated to each polytechnic has the main focus of procurement, Installation, Testing, Training and commissioning of relevant training materials.”
The director also revealed that since inception of the Zonal Intervention in 2016, the Fund had allocated a total sum of N52,046,079,584.7 as zonal Intervention to enlisted polytechnics.
”In the year 2017, the Fund focused the Zonal intervention on “Student Dignity Project”. Hence, the intervention was used to upgrade and standardise all lavatory facilities or provision of new ones where necessary in academic areas of institutions, also shuttle buses (coaches) were also procured for students use among other projects”
”Most recently, the 2022 intervention was used for deployment of ICT facilities within the institutions in line with the guidelines developed by the Fund. This is essentially to increase the capacities of institutions to function effectively and deliver their programmes online”