PTDF To Stop Overseas Training

In this photo dated Thursday, June 30th, 2016, the Cooperation Services of the French Embassy in Nigeria signed an educational partnership agreement with the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) and CampusFrance. The agreement was signed by Mr. Ahmed Galadima Aminu, Executive Secretary, PTDF in the presence of Mrs Rabiah Umar Adamu Waziri- Head of "Education and Training" and Mr. Tanimu Ahmed, Head of PTDF Legal Department

The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) has disclosed that sending graduates for over training was unsustainable and that efforts were on to build capacity to train them locally.

Today News report continues:

The Acting Executive Secretary of PTDF, Ahmed Galadima Aminu, stated this yesterday at the four days induction programme for new PTDF 2016/2017 scholars in Abuja.

Galadima said the practice of sending scholars overseas for training was not a sustainable path, hence, lecturers would be trained abroad so they can boost the training capacity of Nigerian institutions to train young graduates.

He said: "It is worth mentioning that on the matter of PhD scholarship award, the Fund’s priority is lecturers. This is so because the Fund wants to make sure that our institutions have the capacity to train our own young people. The Fund cannot continue to be sending our graduates out of Nigeria for training; this is not the sustainable path.

"Therefore, while we have sent people in the short run to the UK and other countries, what the Fund is doing now in the long run is to keep our institutions moving by sending lecturers for further studies. This year the Fund has introduced a ’bond’ form attached to the award letter wherein scholars are expected to fill and return back to the Fund. This is to provide a guarantee that they will come back to serve Nigeria after concluding their respective programmes."