Cross River Seeks TETFund Support To Train Artisans
Cross River Government has pleaded for support from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) for its newly established University of Education and Entrepreneurship where craftsmen, bricklayers, welders, and others will be trained.
The state governor, Bassey Otu, who appealed during a visit to TETFund in Abuja, stated that the university which is one of the first in the country, was upgraded from the state College of Education.
Otu who stressed the importance of human capital development in confronting challenges of underdevelopment, poverty and unemployment, also solicited TETFund support to build an edifice to house all practical skills for the school.
“The College of Education, we are upgrading it to the University of Education and Entrepreneurship. This is going to be the first one in the country. That’s why we are here soliciting very genuine and strong support.
“I say so because we continue to produce 1000s of graduates that are not employable, they can’t be engaged anywhere. And we also agree that most of the time, things that you learn or study in schools are not things you practice outside”.
” You can only apply the knowledge which you gather from there to you to do it and the day-to-day ruling of affairs. So we’ve gotten to that point where we have to change it. We want every student that goes out of this university to be able to have at least not less than two skills, and he should be able to define two theses, one in education and the other one or two in the skills which he has acquired,” he said.
Otu also commended the Fund under the leadership of Arch Sonny Echono on the visible infrastructural development in the tertiary institutions in the country.
Responding, Echono assured the governor of support stressing that such support is one of TETFund’s obligations to the states.
“On behalf of our management and especially the Board of Trustees, I assure you that we will offer support to this initiative. We are aware of the guidelines and the procedures and all of that for enlistment, but we are also flexible, because the board of trustees have taken the position that we must meet our obligations to states, what we refer to as equality of states, and the resources that we have must go equally to all the states of the Federation through their institutions, “ he said.
Cross River Seeks TETFund Support To Train Artisans is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
