Abstract
This study investigated involvement of TETFund in capacity building for the development of academic staff of Colleges of Education in South-Eastern Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was used. The study was guided by 3 Research Questions and 2 hypothesis. The population of the study comprised of six public colleges of educations in South-East, Nigeria with a total of 1,685 academic staff. A sample of 674 lecturers (270 female and 404 male) was drawn through stratified random sampling technique. The instruments for data collection were document analysis and a self designed questionnaire titled; “TETFund Intervention Programme Questionnaire (TIPQ)”. It contained 12 items. The instrument was properly validated and tested for reliability through test retest method. This yielded a reliability index of 0.86 using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Mean, Standard deviation and rank order were used to analyse the research questions while z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results obtained showed among other things that: TETFund has been consistently disbursing funds in an increasing manner for the development of academic staff of colleges of Education in South-Eastern Nigeria; the benefits of TETFund’s involvement in sponsoring conference attendance for the development of academic staff include among others; providing opportunity for interaction and enhancing academic staff effectiveness. The study equally revealed that TETFund sponsors academic staff to pursue master’s and doctorate degrees, sponsors academic staff for higher degree locally and internationally. Based on the findings the following recommendations among others were made: government should increase the allocation of funds for capacity building in colleges of education and government should equally ensure that fund allocated for staff development in higher institutions are monitored to achieve the desired results.
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