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Nigeria: C'ttee Recommends 80 Research Projects
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This Day (Lagos)
10 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Lagos
National Committee on Science and Technology Education in Post Basic Education has recommended 80 research projects to the Minister of Education for approval.
The Science and Technology research initiative in Post Basic Education (STEP-B) is a joint initiative of the World Bank and the Federal Government to encourage research in tertiary institutions.
It was gathered that the projects cut across universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education. According to the sources, the recommended projects include researches in disciplines in Medicine, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, engineering and environmental studies. Minister of Education, Dr Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu had in an interview recently, said his ministry had given approval to 18 research projects under the first phase of the project. Aja-Nwachukwu said the 18 teachers whose projects were approved under the first phase had been granted about $4.5 million (N522 million). He said 18 out of the 48 research proposals recommended to the ministerial steering committee were selected.
It would be recalled that the World Bank and the Federal Government had in 2007 set aside $180 million (about N22.23 billion) to execute the STEP-B programme in the next three years.
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