Tertiary Education Trust Fund Intervention on Physical Infrastructural Development and Financial Resource Generation in Public Universities in South East Nigeria

Abstract

The insufficient financial allocation and inadequate supply of basic physical infrastructural facilities in Nigerian public universities gave rise to this study on Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention on physical infrastructural development and financial resources generation in Public Universities in South East, Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study while two hypotheses was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised all the 231 staff from the five (5) federal universities in South East, Nigeria. This consisted of 16 staff in TETFund offices and 215 Heads of Departments in the five federal universities in South East, Nigeria. The entire population was used as the study sample purposively. The instrument used for data collection a was a researcher developed questionnaire. The instrument was validated and the reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach alpha to determine the internal consistency which yielded a reliability index of 0.72. In analyzing the data, mean scores and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. The t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed among others that, TETFund intervention had significant impact on physical infrastructural development in federal universities in South East, Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that, TETFund should improve its intervention in providing physical infrastructural facilities towards ensuring qualitative university education in public universities in South East, Nigeria.