FG releases N12bn for 51 polytechnics
Education, Headlines Monday, May 23rd, 2011Federal Government has approved an intervention fund of over N12 billion for the procurement of critical laboratory equipment and training of trainers in 51 polytechnics.
Similarly, government has also committed $150 million International Development Association, IDA, credit from the World Bank, for science and technology education post basic (Step-B) project, where the polytechnic sector remains a major beneficiary.
Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’I, made these disclosures, weekend, in her address at the 16th convocation ceremony of Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri.
She said: “Six selected polytechnics in the six geo-political zones are already enjoying N1.5 billion each, as a high impact Education Trust Fund, ETF, intervention, while 2,068 lecturers across the universities, polytechnics and colleges of education are benefiting from the academic staff post-graduate level training, with about 270 of them studying overseas.”
She added that government will build and equip one state-of-the-art laboratories in each of the six geo-political zones of the country for use by tertiary institutions. She said the intervention has reached an advanced stage.
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