Impact of TETFund Intervention on Academic Staff Development at Federal University Gashua, Yobe State, Nigeria

Abstract

Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has been very instrumental in the area of funding higher education in Nigeria. Public tertiary institutions have been benefiting in several ways through TETFund. The study on the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) is very significant in the sense that the fund since its establishment has been contributing immensely to academic staff training and development in Nigeria. Few or not many can understand and appreciate the contributions of TETFund toward academic staff development in the country. The method adopted in this paper is content analysis using mainly secondary data. The secondary data includes existing literature on the topic such as books, journals, conference papers, and other related documents. The choice of this method of data collection and analysis was however informed by the focus of the study; that is An Assessment of Impact of TETFund Intervention toward Academics Staff Development at Federal University Gashua, Yobe State, Nigeria, which is very difficult to access quick and reliable data from the respondents to use in analyzing the work. This among others informed the adoption of secondary sources and the use of content analysis in analyzing the paper. The paper revealed that TETFund has contributed fairly toward academic staff development; and that, University management support had significant relative effects on academic development at Federal University Gashua. The study therefore recommended that TETFund should do more in the area of human resources development via proper funding, monitoring and evaluation of the academic staff development programme at Federal University Gashua. Yobe State, Nigeria.