The Governor of Cross River State, Bassey Otu, has decried the current state of education in Nigeria calling for a proactive steps towards retooling the system to a creative and productive sector.

Governor Out, during a meeting with the leadership of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund in Abuja stressed the importance of human capital development in confronting challenges of underdevelopment, poverty and unemployment.

GALAXY TV reports that the Governor who also commended the Fund under the leadership of Arch Sonny Echono on the visible infrastructural development in the country, noted that the state requires support for its newly converted College of Education to university of education and Entrepreneurship where craftsmen, bricklayers, welders, and others will be trained.

The Governor solicited support from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund to build an edifice to house all practical skills for its state-owned university of Education and Entrepreneurship.

Responding, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, assured the Governor of support stressing that such support is one of TETFund obligations to the states.
He maintained that the issue of the conversion of the College of Education to a specialized University of Education and ICT, remain a profound and it is consistent with the type of thinking that exist in the country.

Arc Echono emphasized the need for the right investments, review entirely the curriculum and the delivery systems to ensure that the products, the graduates, not only have the skills, but the global citizens could work anywhere and for anybody.