{"id":32325,"date":"2020-06-24T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tetfund.mexygabriel.net\/?page_id=32325"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:21:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:21:37","slug":"academic-staff-trainning-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/index.php\/academic-staff-trainning-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Staff Trainning &#038; Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;32816&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"page-header\">\n<h2>Academic Staff Training &amp; Development<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h6><strong>DEPARTMENT OF ACADEMIC STAFF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>1.0 INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>The Academic Staff Training and Development (AST&amp;D) became a fully functional Department in the year 2013. The AST&amp;D Department has three (3) main Academic\/Content- based Interventions namely:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TETFSAS)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Programmes introduced in 2008;<\/li>\n<li>Conference Attendance (CA)- Programmes introduced in 2010; and<\/li>\n<li>Teaching Practice (TP)-introduced in 2012<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are a total of 214 numbers of Public (State and Federal) Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria that are beneficiaries of the Department\u2019s intervention programmes as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Public Universities \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 81<\/li>\n<li>Public Polytechnics \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 64<\/li>\n<li>Public Colleges of Education \u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 69<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>2.0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FUNCTIONS<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>The AST&amp;D Department has the responsibility for effective co-ordination and implementation of the various intervention lines domiciled in the Department for the overall attainment of the mandate of the Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The basic functions of the AST&amp;D) Department are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ensuring effective co-ordination as well as delivery of Academic-based intervention Programmes as designed by the Fund in accordance with its mandate;<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring the vetting of submissions received from all TETFund Beneficiaries as stipulated in the Fund\u2019s guidelines;<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that allocated intervention funds are accessed by Beneficiary Institutions and facilitate processing of disbursements of all intervention programmes domiciled in the department in line with extant guidelines and procedures;<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring prompt and quality delivery of all TETFund educational intervention programmes domiciled in the Department;<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring cordial, effective and sustainable partnership with beneficiaries of TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TETFSAS) intervention programmes;<\/li>\n<li>Inspecting and verifying the deployment of funds disbursed under the local and foreign components of the TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff Intervention Programmes, as well as Teaching Practice Supervision programme; and<\/li>\n<li>Providing advice to Management on issues relating to Intervention Programmes domiciled in the Department.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;32816&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Academic Staff Training &amp; Development DEPARTMENT OF ACADEMIC STAFF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT \u00a01.0 INTRODUCTION The Academic Staff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32325"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32817,"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32325\/revisions\/32817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}