The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has disclosed plans to deploy Black board learning platform to over 2 million students and staff of higher education institutions in the country.
Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, made this known at the flag-off of three-day workshop on The Implementation of the Enhanced Blackboard Learning Management System and Train The Trainer Programme in Abuja.
Echono who noted that the workshop, was part of measures put in place to bridge the digital skills gap in universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria, expressed optimism that it would impact the ability of Nigerian students to compete favourably with their contemporaries on the global stage.
Speaking further, the TETFund boss said the Fund is improving its allocation to ICT development in its intervention programmes to ensure that the country meet up with the present digital reality across the globe.
The workshop attracted directors of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) from the 253 beneficiary institutions.
