The Petroleum Know-how Improvement Fund (PTDF) has screened 424 candidates for overseas scholarships to check petroleum associated programs at each Grasp’s and PhD levels.
The PTDF stated the screening course of is a nationwide train to pick essentially the most appropriate beneficiaries who will embark on improvement analysis and make a contribution to the nation’s power sector.
Talking at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa College Bauchi Wednesday, the Deputy Supervisor Companies, School of Petroleum and Vitality Research, Sirajo Abdullahi Fari, defined that specifically Within the North East, the Fund has shortlisted 266 for Grasp’s diploma and 158 for PhD.
He added that the method concerned three phases; system verification, screening of paperwork by the personnel of the Fund and vetting by a workforce of consultants.
Abdullahi famous that the Fund’s mandate is to coach for human capital improvement to fill the manpower scarcity within the oil sector, saying the Company has been sponsoring college students overseas for the previous 20 years and mandatory improvement contributions have been recorded.
“Now we have been receiving testimonies that our former cohorts at the moment are a part of the folks manning the newly constructed Dangote Refinery, Shell and different locations. In actual fact, many others at the moment are professors who’re those being deployed as panelists,” he stated.
He additionally defined that the Fund has at all times insisted on benefit and be certain that certified candidates emerged no matter their standing, tribe or connection.
One of many panelists, Prof. Abubakar Isa Bello of Bayero College, Kano, stated that the train is centred on merit-based with out interference from PTDF. “Now we have been given the rules and comply with via, we subsequently on the finish of the day make suggestions based mostly on our evaluation and the Fund makes the ultimate choice,” he stated.