- The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has advised on the need for reliable data of academic staff in Nigerian tertiary institutions. The intervention agency also encouraged Nigerian academics on the need for quality journal publications in order not to miss out on some important criteria which the international community use to rate them. Dr. Salihu Girei Bakari,
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has advised on the need for reliable data of academic staff in Nigerian tertiary institutions. The intervention agency also encouraged Nigerian academics on the need for quality journal publications in order not to miss out on some important criteria which the international community use to rate them. Dr. Salihu Girei Bakari,
Director of Research and Development, Centres of Excellence, who gave the advice, decried the situation where most institutions do not have functional websites, which should ordinarily carry information regarding such institutions.
Bakari who spoke on Monday, at the opening of a weeklong capacity building workshop organised for Staff of Research and Development units in Nigerian public universities, said information is key and once any institution is found lagging behind in ICT, research and development, there was no way favourable rating will come.
Regarding the issue of journal publication, Bakari revealed that in the outgone year 2019, only 26 institutions were able to access grants meant for publication out of 220 tertiary institutions that were equally entitled to the funds.
“Most times I feel disturbed when my friends who are academics abroad put a call to me to help them look for a competent person in Nigeria with specialisation in certain field to help them carry out some research work. “Ordinarily, if such a person has his profile in the internet, by merely visiting Google, such name should appear and they won’t have to put calls across. “Most academic staff are not also proficient in the use of computers, these are the challenges we face as an intervention agency that informed this kind of training on research and development, “ he stated
Professor Ibrahim Katampe who has over four patent in the United States, said Nigeria can only take the lead in the continent once it can engage in innovative research and subsequent commercialisation of such products.
