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The Centre for Research and Development (CERAD), Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti has organised a 2-Day training workshop on ways to access the TETFUND National Research Fund and grant proposal for emerging scholars.
Declaring the workshop open, the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the institution, Dr. Ibitola Makinde said Universities are known and rated in terms of their contributions to knowledge through research and the quality of their products.
She said “Nigeria as a nation, had lost many of her best brain to advanced nations and can be tagged a technologically disadvantage nation because of its inability to promote research development “
Dr. Makinde labelled the harsh economic situation in the country as the reason it became impossible for individuals to finance a worthwhile research and lauded TETFUND for its intervention by sponsoring lecturers for conferences and providing grants for institutional based research.
She charged the lecturers to work hard to surpass the previous achievement of winning nineteen (19) Institutional Based Research Grants and one (!) National Research Fund during the days of the institution as a College of Education and achieve more now that the school has been upgraded to a University status.
Earlier, the Acting Director, Center for Research and Development, BOUESTI, Dr. Folorunso Obasuyi expressed optimism that the training would change the perception of lecturers and spur them to undertake research activities.