TETFund<\/a> and the Training Centre in Communication, Nairobi, as part of activities to mark International Open Access Week.<\/p>\nBogoro recalled that following the agency\u2019s proposal, the Board of Trustees\u2019 had in 2019 approved N5 billion for NRF, which was raised to N7.5 billion in 2020 and N8.5 billion in 2021.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cOver the last two and half years now, we have raised funds available for research. They are two categories; institution-based and National Research Fund.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe institution-based has a ceiling of about maybe 3,600 US dollars and it is for mainly basic research while the higher ceiling grant of about 92 or 93 US dollars is the National Research Fund aimed at promoting applied research, and to that extent, in 2019 I made a case to the Board of Trustees of TETFund to increase the threshold.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt used to be a kind of seed money. Seed money of N4 billion for eight years but from the year 2019 to last year and this year, we increased it to N5 billion annually. Last year we increased it from N5 billion to N7.5 billion and this year it is N8.5 billion and we are hoping in 2022 it will move to N10 billion.<\/p>\n
He said NRF is one of the major platforms put in place by the government through TETFund to support the academic community in research to achieve specific objectives, particularly in the area of science, technology and innovation.<\/p>\n
While expressing the readiness of TETFund to always mainstream open access\/science through massive support for Research and Development (R&D), Bogoro said the Fund had recently established 12 centres of excellence across the country.<\/p>\n
He said the move was aimed at supporting cutting-edge research mainly in universities so as to provide solutions to various problems bedevilling the society as well as position Nigeria as a major player in the knowledge economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are increasing emphasis on Science, Technology and Innovation to solve societal problems,\u201d Bogoro said, even as he said democratisation of higher education in Nigeria would improve more access to research and its supportive platforms to the schools and the society.<\/p>\n
Bogoro, however, revealed that TETFund has developed a project impact tracking system to evaluate the correlation of its spendings on research and results so far achieved.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrecisely and coinciding with the time, we realised that we need to know the impact of our research and so we have worked on and concluding a process of software that will help us to evaluate the impact of the research grants so that we are not just throwing money on research exercise but we need to evaluate the impact,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Also speaking at the webinar, the Technical Adviser to the TETFund\u2019s Executive Secretary, Dr Popoola Mustapha Ayodele, harped on the decolonisation of education research and technology in Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur educational system is still colonised, we must do away with old traditions and adopt new paradigms\u2026., the traditional practice of closed systems should be done away with,\u201d Popoola said.<\/p>\n
Popoola, who spoke on \u2018Democratisation of Higher Education in Nigeria, Open Access Landscape and TETFund\u2019s Intervention for Open Science Adoption,\u201d said the agency is leaving no stone unturned to revolutionise R&D in the country to benefit all.<\/p>\n
While saying TETFund\u2019s intervention lines on open science include the establishment of 12 Centres of Excellence in universities, Popoola said the agency will soon establish the second set of 12 centres to be distributed equally among polytechnics and colleges of education.<\/p>\n
On his part, the Director of Distance, Open and eLearning of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Odedina Kayode, lamented the problem of access in the Nigerian university system both in terms of materials and admission of students.<\/p>\n
Odedina said while there are 201 universities in the country, only about 30 per cent from over a million candidates that apply for admission every year sail through the hurdles.<\/p>\n
Mr Daryl Naylor of Digital Science, who also spoke at the event, expressed the readiness of his organisation to always support open access initiatives in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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