Echono Urges Tertiary Institution to Adopt Reliable Funding System

Sonny Echono, the executive secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), has urged all public institutions to develop a new sustainable funding strategy that ensures their financial independence.

He pointed out that the nation’s public universities were suffering from an excessive reliance on government money, and he insisted that implementing a new sustainable funding model would enable them to carry out their mission.