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ACCESSIBILITY OF TERTIARY EDUCATION TRUST FUND (TETFUND) FOR RESEARCH IN SOUTH EASTERN NIGERIAN INSTITUTIONS

NNANNA ONUIGBO, ELIZABETH LESI SAAONEE KAEGON

Abstract


This study investigated the accessibility of TETFund for research in institutions in South East Nigeria State. A descriptive survey design was adopted. The population of the study comprises of all the staff of TETFund in the zone and Abuja Head Office, all the lecturers of the institutions in South East, Nigeria (7,734). Based on sampling criteria, eight hundred and twenty-four (824) respondents (773 lecturers and 51 TETFund officials) were randomly sampled which constitute 10 percent of the lecturers from each of the five federal universities and all the TETFund officers from Abuja and all the desk officers of the five universities. The instrument was the researcher's designed questionnaire on “TETFund Inputs for Beneficiaries Research Output Questionnaire” (TIBROQ). Cronbach Alpha was used to test the reliability of the instrument and a co-efficient of .912, .833 and .874 respectively was obtained. Descriptive statistical tools of mean and standard deviation provided answers to the research questions while z-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. Findings revealed that the problems militating against research is poor funding, low quality of research output due the inaccessibility of lecturers to the provided TETFund fund and that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of TETFund officials and lecturers on TETFund inputs into research and factors militating against researchers’ access to research funds in Universities in South East, Nigeria. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that TETFund should increase the funds allocated to universities and TETFund should revisit and review the guidelines for accessing TETFund funds.

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