Tertiary Education Trust Fund

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Tertiary Education Trust Fund
Educational Agency overview
Formed2011
Jurisdiction Federal government of Nigeria
Headquarters6 Zambezi Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, F.C.T., Nigeria
Ministers responsible
Parent department Federal Ministry of Education (Nigeria)
Website https://tetfundserver.com/

Tertiary Education Trust Fund, abbreviated as TETFUND, is a scheme established by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2011 to disburse, manage, and monitor education tax to government-owned tertiary institutions in Nigeria. [1] [2]

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The TETFUND scheme was formed as a product of the Education Tax Act of 1993. This Act repeals the Education Tax Act Cap. E4, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and Education Tax Fund Act No. 17, 2003 and establishes the Tertiary Education Trust Fund charged with the responsibility for imposing, managing and disbursing the tax to public tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Before the establishment of the scheme in 2011, government-owned tertiary institutions were poorly funded. The scheme was designed to improve the management of funds disbursed to these institutions. [3] [4]

Background

From the 1980s and beyond, the decay of all tiers of education was monumental. Facilities had almost collapsed, teachers and lecturers morale was at its lowest. Enabling environment for conducive teaching and learning was absent. The administration of President, Ibrahim Babangida mindful of the reality of the situation took measures to arrest the rot. In December 1990 the Federal Government constituted the Commission on the Review of Higher Education in Nigeria (the Gray Longe Commission) to review the post-independence Nigerian Higher Education after Lord Ashby's Commission of 1959. The Longe Commission recommended among others the funding of higher education through earmarked tax to be borne by companies operating in Nigeria. An implementation committee under the chairmanship of Professor Olu O. Akinkugbe was constituted to implement Grey Longe's Commission report recommendations also an Agreement was signed between the Federal Government and ASUU on 3 September 1992 on funding of universities. In January 1993, the Education Tax Act No7 of 1993 was promulgated alongside other education-related Decrees. The Decree imposed a 2% tax on the assessable profits of all companies in Nigeria. This was a homegrown solution to address issues of funding to rehabilitate decaying infrastructure, restore the lost glory of education and confidence in the system as well as consolidate the gains thereto; build the capacity of teachers and lecturers; teacher development; development of prototype designs; etc. The Education Tax Act of No7 of 1993 mandated the Fund to operate as an Intervention Fund to all levels of public education ( Federal, State and Local). This mandate was faithfully discharged between 1999 and May 2011 when the ET Act was repealed and replaced by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund Act, due to lapses and challenges in operating the Education Trust Fund. These lapses and challenges include:

Establishment of the Tertiary Education Fund

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund was originally established as Education Trust Fund (ETF) by Act No 7 of 1993 as amended by Act No 40 of 1998 (now repealed and replaced with Tertiary Education Trust Fund Act 2011). It is an intervention agency set up to provide supplementary support to all levels of public tertiary institutions with the main objective of using funding alongside project management for the rehabilitation, restoration and consolidation of Tertiary Education in Nigeria. The main source of income available to the Fund is the two per cent education tax paid from the assessable profit of companies registered in Nigeria. The Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) assesses collects the tax on behalf of the Fund. The funds are disbursed for the general improvement of education in federal and state tertiary educations specifically for the provision or maintenance of:

The fund is managed by an eleven-member board with members drawn from the six geopolitical zones of the country as well as representative of the Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Inland Revenue Services. The board has the following responsibilities as stated in the act:

The Board of Trustees shall administer, manage and disburse the tax imposed by this Act based on:

  1. Funding of all public tertiary educational institutions
  2. Equality among the six geo-political zones of the Federal in case of special intervention
  3. Equality among the states of the Federation in case of regular intervention

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References

  1. ↑ "jigawa college receives nbn tetfund intervention fund". Vanguard Newspaper. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "plateau government lobbies tetfund". daily independent. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "tracking tetfund interventions in education sector". guardian newspaper. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "n100bn tetfund accessed tertiary institutions bot chairman". daar communications plc. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "History – TERTIARY EDUCATION TRUST FUND" . Retrieved 15 May 2021.
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