ABSTRACT

The study investigated the influence of TETFund on the Management of Federal Universities in South-East, Nigeria. Seven (7) research questions and seven (7) hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population comprised twenty five (25) Principal Officers and six thousand four hundred and thirty one (6,431) Lecturers in the five (5) Federal Universities in South-East, Nigeria. A sample size of six hundred and sixty eight (668) respondents was selected using Consensus and Proportionate stratified random sampling technique. A Structured questionnaire developed by the researcher and titled: Influence of Tertiary Education Trust Fund Questionnaire (ITETFQ) was used in collecting data for the study. The instrument was face validated by three (3) experts in all, two (2) from the Department of Educational Management and the other from Measurement and Evaluation in the Department of Science Education, all in the College of Education, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. Data analysis was done using mean and standard deviation to answer all research questions and t-test statistics was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 levels of significance. The study revealed that TETFund plays a major role in supporting and improving the management of Federal Universities through the provision of basic infrastructure and resources to improve the quality of educational delivery.  The researcher recommended that TETFund should ensure the use of competent contractors and companies in the construction of physical facilities to ensure quality execution of TETFund building construction projects in the respective institutions; provide for and adapt to cutting-edge technology; procure and maintain high-tech resources; sensitize the institutions on the requirements and procedures for accessing TETFund interventions; eliminate unnecessary bureaucracies in accessing interventions, allow the institutions to access missed funds for previous year and expand their intervention on libraries to encourage reading culture in those institutions.