AN ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF TETFUND INTERVENTIONS ON INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN NASARAWA STATE
Yahaya A. Adadu, PhD, Mohammed Bello Baban’umma, PhD and Peter Yohanna Mari
Volume 3 Issue 2
Abstract
The study analysis the impact of intervention of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) on physical infrastructural development in tertiary institutions in Nasarawa State. The main objective of this paper is to examine the challenges of TETFund interventions in ensuring infrastructural development in tertiary institutions in Nasarawa State. The study uses secondary data and the system theoretical framework was utilized to explain how TETFund has supported infrastructural development because of poor infrastructures in the State’s tertiary institutions. The paper revealed that the state of physical infrastructure in tertiary institutions in Nasarawa state before the TETFund intervention were inadequate and dysfunctional. Findings from the paper show that TETfund as an intervention agency has addressed some of the challenges of physical infrastructure in tertiary institutions in Nasarawa state. The study recommends that government at different levels should be committed to educational development instead of leaving the whole weight to TETFund. The Federal Government should adopt full implementation of Public-Private-Partnership policy to complement the effort of TETFund rather than depending on the agency to provide the physical infrastructure in the institutions. The Federal government should allocate adequate funds to enable TETFund complete the ongoing projects as well as initiate new ones in order to increase access to education in the country. Since the only source of funding available to the TETFund is the 2% tax collected from the accessible profits of registered companies in Nigeria the government should review the tax to 5% to provide enough funding for the agency to execute its objectives. Key Words: TETFund, Infrastructure, Development, Tertiary Institutions, PPP
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