It seems the college of education strike is getting more agitated and want the federal government to call off their strike, even though as their counterpart, ASUP is still striking hard.
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According to information reaching our news desk this morning, the Federal Government had on Monday, the 7th of July, set up a committee to consider the demand of colleges of education in the country to award degree certificate as applicable in the universities.
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We would love you to note that the "Award of degree by the colleges of education" was one of the major demands of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, (COEASU) which has been on strike since the 8th of December 2013.
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The panel, which is constituting of a 10 man panel, held in FCT Abuja, yesterday, the supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, disclosed to our correspondent, that the federal government was displeased and uncomfortable with the ongoing closure of the nation's public colleges of education and polytechnics.
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According to the supervising minister of education, who said and we quote below: "We are aware that the colleges of education are currently on strike and one of the main reasons they have given for going on strike, is to do with the colleges of education being able to award both NCE and the Bachelor of Education certificates.
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In order to ease the tension in the Nigeria educational system and be able to see how we can move a step further, the government are setting up this committee to look at the merit or otherwise of colleges of education to award both NCE and BSc certificates. Of course, this will go a long way to assure College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) that the federal government is doing everything humanly possible to see how to resolve these problems and ensure that both the colleges and Polytechnics return back to school."
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Mr wike also went on to urged the college of education academic staff union (COEASU) to call off its strike and allow for continued dialogue, saying this: "It does not pay us. Government is not happy at all.
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Forget about what anybody may say, no government is happy at all when the country educational system is crippling.
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That is why whatever we can do to see us taking steps to see how we can call off this strike.
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The committee, chaired by Permanent Secretary in the ministry, MacJohn Uwaobiala, has about four weeks to submit its report, but before that, we will be updating you about the latest updates.