Bokkos (Plateau) – The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Prof Suleiman has reiterates the agency’s commitment to support quality research in Nigerian Universities.
The projects inaugurated include; the university’s Senate Building and the newly-established faculty of Health Sciences.
Bogoro maintained that the ranking of every university depends on the quality of its manpower, hence the need for training and retraining of academic staff.
Yes, physical infrastructure in universities is good, but in ranking, the quality of its faculties, in other words, the quality of its lecturers is most profound.
“That is what I call for adequate content component of the university system; it is the life wire of every university.
“We have been supporting the universities to have quality researchers in various disciplines; We shall continue to do that so that our universities will favourably compete with their counterparts abroad,” he said.
Earlier, Prof. Yohanna Izam, the Vice Chancellor of the university, said that the senate building was part of the 2019 TETFUND Special High Impact Intervention, while the faculty of health building falls under the ordinary intervention.
He thanked the Fund for considering the university for the intervention, adding that projects would improve teaching and research in the institution.
