[ad_1]
The federal authorities has moved to finish the dominance of foreign publications in tertiary institutions in a bid to ameliorate challenges of foreign alternate wanted for purchases.
On Tuesday, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu unveiled 10 new indigenous textbooks sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).
At the general public presentation of the books in Abuja, Mr Adamu, stated the dependence on foreign educational publications portends nice hazard to the nation’s schooling sector.
“Nigeria’s tertiary schooling institutions grew to become depending on books revealed outdoors the nation with the attendant penalties of stress on the demand for foreign alternate.
“It is equally worrisome that the standard of most educational publications in our nation leaves a lot to be desired,” the minister stated.
“It is, due to this fact, anticipated that nurturing the tradition of high quality authorship and the manufacturing of indigenous books won’t solely guarantee the provision of related books in various topic areas, it’ll additionally safeguard nationwide delight and cut back the demand for foreign alternate,” he stated.
He counseled TETFund for establishing the Higher Education Book Development venture to sort out the shortage of tertiary degree textbooks, which had reached a disaster.
The minister additionally praised the fund for placing in place the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), whose mandate included collaboratively working with the company to guarantee Nigerian authors churned out high quality books.
“It is worthy of word that to date, 77 manuscripts have handed by way of rigorous assessment processes by distinguished students and are prepared for publication as books,” he stated.
Mr Adamu assured that a further 30 books can be introduced earlier than the tip of 2022 below TETFund sponsorship programme.
According to him, over 60 per cent of the books are to be revealed by the Academic Publishing Centres (APCs) established by TETFund.
Also talking, the manager secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, who expressed delight over the standard of the books, assured of the readiness of the fund to sponsor the manufacturing of fifty textbooks in 2023.
Mr Echono additionally revealed that the fund had supplied help to be sure that all the tutorial publishing centres in the nation grew to become absolutely operational.
Meanwhile, the chairman, TETFund TAG, Charles Aworh, stated 20 TETFund-sponsored textbooks have been revealed in 2014 in totally different fields with extensive acceptance from inside and out of doors the nation.
(NAN)
[ad_2]
