The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) has stated that for the country to achieve the fundamental objectives of education as envisioned in the National Education Policy, the challenges militating against quality tertiary education must be tackled with a sense of urgency and sincerity.
According to TETFUND, these challenges include inadequate funding, frequent industrial action, cultism, brain drain, insecurity, poor leadership, inadequate quality teaching staff, and poor policy implementation.
Speaking in his lecture titled “University Autonomy and the Challenge of Quality Tertiary Education in Nigeria” during the 9th convocation ceremony of the Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) at the weekend, the Executive Secretary of TETFUND, Arch. Sonny Echono noted that a combination of inadequate infrastructure and a limited number of academic staff in both private and public universities translates…
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