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The Federal Soldier Soldier Soldier Government, through the Federal Ministry of Education have approved about N8, 300,275, 372 or $6.2 million for Science and Technology Education for Post Basic (STEP-B) undertakings to provide for about 18 proposals out of the 48 proposed, President Umaru Genus Musa Yar'Adua have said.

The Fund, which is being supported by the World Depository Financial Institution is aimed at improving the quality, just entree to and relevancy of Science and Technology Education at the Federal Post Basic level, as well as addition the country's fight in a globalised world.

The President, who disclosed this at the 20th Convocation ceremonial of the Federal Soldier University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), recently, said that the World Depository Financial Institution through the STEP-B programme, was willing and ready to back up selected research enterprises in any of the universities, polytechnic institutes and other Tertiary institutions.

He urged the universities, particularly universities of engineerings to entree the monetary monetary fund through well articulated and relevant research proposals, adding that the fund is available to both establishments and individual lectors to access.

The President, who was represented by the Curate of Education, Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu remarked that the authorities was working assidously to have got the instruction sector reformed for the improvement of the society, stressing that authorities encouraged productive duologue in the sector's transmutation objectives.

According to him, our vision of Tertiary instruction in this state is to "advance Nigerian's economical growing and planetary competitiveness, through the proviso of accessible, affordable, relevant, high quality education". To accomplish this, he said, authorities had to do human working capital development through quality instruction as one of its Seven-Point Agenda.

He further disclosed that the Education Ministry through its agency, the National Universities Committee (NUC), introduced the "Nigeria University Teachers Improvement Projects" (NUTIP) and the "Virtual Institute for Higher Education Programme" (VIHEP) to develop academicians under particular understanding in identified countries of deficiency, teaching and also hammer research coaction with relevant agencies.

Through the new programs of the authorities on education, such as as the 'Nigerian Experts and Academics in Diaspora Scheme (NEADS)', the president said authorities hoped to pull Nigerian experts and academicians in the Diaspora back home.

On Information and Technology (IT), he said that the federal authorities under the present democratic dispensation had already taken stairway to germinate the agency of integrating the IT civilization into the nation's educational system through the "computer-In-school project (CISP)' and the staff Computer Ownership Schemes in coaction with other stakeholders through the Populace Private Partnership Scheme (PPP)."

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Yar,Adua expressed delectation at FUOT's accomplishments and commended the Frailty Chancellor, Professor Celestine Onwuliri, the President of the Government Council, Alhaji Faruk Abdullahi, members of the Council, staff and pupils for their hardwork and dedication to duty.

He noted that the public presentation of any educational institution, in footing of relevancy and quality in solving the jobs of the society could be measured by the efficiency and effectivity of the direction in achieving its authorization of preparation pupils on how to know, do, be, and unrecorded together in civilised society.

Prof. Onwuliri thanked the President Yar'Adua for his continued support to the institution, without which, the university could not have got achieved much. A sum of 3, 248 pupils graduated at the ceremony.