Abstract
This paper assesses the effect of Tertiary
Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention on Academic Staff Sponsorship for
Higher Degrees in Kaduna State University. The need for an external
intervention to compliment the effort of tertiary institutions in building
their capacity in order to deliver their services effectively is paramount.
This is as a result of the fact that running a tertiary institution of
education of high quality requires huge capital and elaborate technical support
which the proprietors of such institution may not have the wherewithal to
execute such capital-intensive projects. The Kaduna State University was established under
the Kaduna State Law Number 3 promulgated on 21st May, 2004. The promulgation
was a consequence of the obvious and felt need to boost higher education in the
State and the country in general. To achieve this objective, the Kaduna State
University designed human resources policy and invested reasonable amounts of
resources towards ensuring that both academic and non-academic staff are given
training and development capable of building their capacity to enhanced service
delivery. To complement this, TETFund intervened in many ways in the
University through among other things the Academic Staff Sponsorship for Higher
Degrees. Despite the intervention by TETFund, there havebeen a number of
challenges facing academic staff capacity building in Kaduna State University as Pilot
Study (Abdullahi, 2023) has revealed that a significant number of academic
staff could not have access to TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff
(TSAS) to further their Postgraduate studies. The objective of this paper is to
assess the effect of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention on
Academic Staff Sponsorship for Higher Degrees. It was hypothesized that TETFund
intervention does not have significant effect on sponsorship for higher degree
of Academic Staff in Kaduna State University. Both primary and secondary data
were collected and analyzed using Linear regression analysis of SPSS 20.0. It
was found that TETFund intervention has a positive effect on sponsorship for
higher degree of Academic Staff in Kaduna State University. It was therefore
recommended that allocations for sponsorship for higher degrees component be
increased by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TetFund) such that more
academic staff would be trained to acquire higher degrees.
author/Abdullahi, A.; Salisu, S.J.; Yusuf, H.A. & Lawal, A.
journal/FUJPAM Vol. 3, No. 1
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