Tertiary Education Trust Fund Policy on Essential Physical Infrastructure and Instructional Materials and Equipment in South East, Nigeria: Assessment.
- July 17, 2021
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International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue VI, June 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186
Anorue, Chuks E.1 and Ikediugwu, N. (Prof.)2
1Department of Educational Foundations and Administration, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri (affiliate of University of Nigeria Nsukka).
2Department of Educational Management and Policy, faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the Tertiary Education Trust Fund policy implementation for universities improvement in the South – East of Nigeria. The study was guided by four research questions and four hypotheses. The researcher adopted descriptive survey design for the study. The population of the study is 765 staff of the federal and state public universities in South- East, Nigeria. There was no sampling since the number of Heads of Departments, Deans of Faculties, and TETFund Committees of the Universities was manageable, the entire population was studied. Assessment of TETFund Policy Implementations for Universities improvement questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The researcher also used a checklist to really ascertain the authenticity of the data provided by the respondents. Data were analyzed using Mean and Standard Deviation to answer the research questions and ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings from the results revealed that the extent to which Tertiary Education Trust Fund has implemented policy on provisions of essential physical infrastructure for teaching and learning for the universities improvement in South-East, Nigeria is low and there is significant difference in the mean ratings of the opinion of the respondents. The findings also revealed that the extent to which TETFund has implemented policy on the provisions of instructional materials and equipments for teaching and learning and is low, and there is no significant differences in the mean ratings of the respondents opinion on the result. The researcher made some recommendations which includes: that TETFund should diversify its provisions of essential physical infrastructure to cover other areas like provision of administrative blocks, water resource, hostel accommodation, staff quarters and others. Tetfund board of directors should improve to a large extent its policy on the provision of instructional materials and equipment especially in providing items like laboratory apparatuses, personal computers, lap top computers to staff, document cameras, among others.
Key words: Policy, implementation, universities improvement, teaching, learning
Introduction
Education in Nigeria and in Diaspora is a veritable instrument for national development and social change. This statement indicates the value of education. However, the value of education to any society is dependent on the amount of revenue pumped into it by the government of that nation. Education to Assman (2002) is any act of experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. FRN (2013) defines tertiary education as the education given after past Basic Education institutions such as universities and other inter university centers. However, the National Policy on Education outlined the goals of tertiary education as.
