Assessing the Level of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) Provision of Instructional Materials/Equipment in University of Calabar, between 2016 – 2022

The purpose of the study is to assess Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) interventions in the provision of instructional materials/equipment in University of Calabar between 2016-2022. To achieve this, a research question was posed to guide the study. The descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 392 respondents of which 390 are lecturers and 2 from the Directorate of Academic Planning. The simple random sampling technique was adopted to select 10 faculties from 20 faculties in the University of Calabar and the purposive sampling technique was used to select 39 lecturers each from the 10 faculties and 2 staff from the Directorate of Academic Planning. A 6-item questionnaire, ATETFPIQ was developed by the researchers and used for data collection. Data generated were analyzed with SPSS and Microsoft office excels (2010). The results were interpreted in frequencies and simple percentages. The result obtained from the analysis revealed that TETFund provision of instructional material/equipment in University of Calabar between 2016 – 2022 is to a great extent significant. Based on the findings, recommendations were made, among which is, TETFund as an intervening agency should sustain its funding for the provision of instructional material/equipment within the institution.

Keywords: TETFund Intervention, provision, instructional material, University, ASUU, Government.