The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has reiterated its dedication to bridge the digital expertise gap between industries and the academy.
Sonny Echono, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, disclosed this in Abuja on Monday, 2023, on the Train the Trainer ICT Capacity Workshop for Beneficiary Institutions within the North Central Zone.
Echono stated that bridging the digital expertise gap would assist produce globally aggressive graduates.
According to him, the necessity for capability constructing, web entry availability, digital journals, database subscriptions, and lots of others has been recognized in our numerous establishments.
He emphasised the significance of digital expertise to advance the analysis of the beneficiary establishments and the nation at massive.
Echono hinted that the Federal Government had drafted a coverage at the least educational customary requiring graduates to own ICT information earlier than commencement.
He stated that digital literacy was vital because the nation was not producing sufficient expert manpower to serve its 220 million folks.
He additionally stated that there was a mismatch between employers and the talents produced by graduates, therefore the necessity to shut the gap.
”In at this time’s world, there’s a template on which one can function. Even our instructing workers, non-teaching workers, and administration workers, together with a lot of the workforce, don’t possess these digital expertise.
”We are in TETFund to do our greatest to bridge that gap, and if we reach making certain our college students are digitally literate, it’s going to make them marketable and create enhanced avenues for analysis,” he stated.
