Appraisal of TETFund Intervention on Human Resources as Correlate of Infrastructural Development of Tertiary Institutions in Imo State.

Abstract

In this study, the researchers investigated TETFund intervention on human resources as correlate of infrastructural development in tertiary institution in Imo State. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated and tested using simple linear approach at 0.05 level of significance. The design adopted was correlation research design. The population consist of three thousand three hundred and sixty-four (3,364) lecturers from the seven state and Federal owned tertiary institutions in Imo State, the sample was three hundred and thirty-six (336) lecturers which is 10% of the population drawn through cluster and proportionate random sampling techniques. The instruments are two rating scales titled “Tertiary Education Trust Fund Scale (TETFS) and Infrastructural Development Scale (IDS). The instruments were validated by two Measurement and Evaluation experts and reliability established to be 0.76 and 0.74 for TETFS and IDS respectively using crombach alpha statistics. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (Pearson r) statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings showed that both provision of research/publication and academic staff training have moderate, positive and significance relationship with infrastructural development in tertiary institutions in Imo State. It was recommended among others that government should continue to encourage and support research activities, staff training and infrastructural development through TETFund intervention.