Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono stated this in Abuja on Wednesday, during an interactive meeting with Rectors and Directors of Research of Polytechnics on National Research Fund, NRF, grants.Echono lamented the huge shortage of skills in critical sectors of the nation’s economy, stating that “It means we are not producing graduates that are fit for purpose, that meet the needs of the industry, that are ready to take up responsibility and contribute their quota upon engagement.
“We are having a situation where side-by-side there is very high graduate unemployment. There’s a huge shortage of skills in critical sectors of our national economy. It means we are not producing graduates that are fit for purpose, that meet the needs of the industry, that are ready to take up responsibility and contribute their quota upon engagement. The other aspect is that we continue to produce manpower that the current structure of our economy can no longer absorb,” he said.
“In achieving the mandate of the Fund, the NRF was established so that we address the paucity of funds for research, especially in Nigerian tertiary education Institutions and this is geared towards contributing to national development efforts. “So, the challenge for us today and the need for this meeting is that we have to ask those questions. If there’s any area that you do not understand it is important that you ask because the chairman of NRF is here.
The executive secretary further said the Fund has already taken initiative to close these gaps by rolling out training programmes, making steps further by engaging with people who have practice and made progress with research. He emphasised that the NRF committee membership is drawn from the Nigerian Tertiary institutions, universities polytechnics and colleges of education so we have representatives of the academic staff unions, the ASUU, ASUP and COEASU as members so that nobody is being marginalized and the representative of the regulatory agencies are also there and we the host we run the Secretariat.
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