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PTDF Cancels Overseas Scholarship Programmes by adioolayi(m): 8:47pm On Sep 03, 2015 |
The Petroleum Technology Development Fund has announced the
cancellation of its overseas scholarship programmes for Nigerian
graduates and undergraduates.
This, it said, was part of its new policy direction, adding that it
would fundamentally affect the operation and funding of its
overseas scholarship scheme and other training programmes under
the fund’s management.
PTDF, in a statement issued by the Head, External Relations, Mr.
Kalu Otisi, on Thursday, said the policy directions “include a partial
or outright domestication of the scholarship scheme in Nigeria in
line with the Local Content policy of the Nigerian government, and
the denomination of the scholarship in hard currency as against the
Naira due to the volatility of foreign exchange rates.”
To give effect to these policy shifts, the fund said it had opened up
discussions with officials of foreign universities where Nigerian
scholars were regularly sent for their Masters and PhD studies
under the sponsorship of PTDF.
The discussion, it said, was on the possibility of either setting up
branches of the foreign institutions in Nigeria or collaborate with
local universities in Nigeria, particularly those whose oil and gas
related departments had been fully upgraded by the fund to become
centres of excellence in teaching and research.
The Executive Secretary, PTDF, Mr. Femi Ajayi, who held interactive
sessions with officials of the Imperial College London and the
University College London as well as Nigerian scholars, said such a
partnership would henceforth form the basis for the fund’s future
relationship and co-operation with universities providing training
and research to its scholars abroad.
He reportedly said, “This is because we have institutions in Nigeria
which PTDF has over the years been upgrading. So we want a
situation where there will be more cooperation between universities
out here and our universities back home.
“And we have some faculties that we have developed or upgraded
as an agency where some of these short term and long term
courses can be run. So we are discussing the various modes of
partnership and collaboration towards moving along this line.”
PTDF is a Federal Government agency which has the mandate of
enhancing the institutional capacities of universities offering oil and
gas related courses.
Ajayi said the fund plans to use the National Institute of Petroleum
Policy and Strategy, Kaduna, as the coordinating centre for
alternative energy sources and renewable energy resources and
called on foreign universities to come on board with the PTDF in
realising the target.
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Re: PTDF Cancels Overseas Scholarship Programmes by Job2ko(m): 9:33pm On Sep 03, 2015 |
HOPE THE PTDF SEF WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE NEWS THAT IT IS NO LONGER WHAT IT USED TO BE. |
Re: PTDF Cancels Overseas Scholarship Programmes by Donrissy(m): 8:33am On Sep 04, 2015 |
Hope they won't cancel ongoing scholarship and do they even have the capacity to run the programs/courses they ran abroad in Nigeria to their full standard? |
Re: PTDF Cancels Overseas Scholarship Programmes by Nobody: 9:35am On Sep 04, 2015 |
when they just opened the portal for OSS! even the universities they have upgraded can't compete with international standards. |
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