Review TETFund Act to include private universities – Lecturer urges NASS

A Nigerian assemblage lecturer has called connected the National Assembly to amend the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) Act to let backstage universities entree to backing nether the scheme.

Dr. Sikiru Nurudeen, Associate Professor of Political Science astatine Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, said the existent TETFund instrumentality unfairly excludes backstage institutions, limiting their quality to physique infrastructure, enactment research, and make world programmes.

“Private universities bid a important information of Nigeria’s aboriginal workforce and should beryllium included successful interventions that fortify higher education,” helium said.

Currently, the TETFund Act restricts backing to nationalist tertiary institutions including national and authorities universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education, leaving backstage universities without entree to the billions of naira collected from the acquisition tax.

Nurudeen urged lawmakers to revise the instrumentality truthful that some nationalist and backstage universities tin payment from probe grants, infrastructure improvement and unit capableness building.

He reason that including backstage universities would assistance span infrastructure gaps, amended probe output, and rise world standards nationwide.

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