COEASU Leaders To Meet NASS Over Strike On June 24

[Shola Sholaz]

The students of the colleges of education remain hopeful of returning to school soon as the leadership of the College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) are set to meet with the National Assembly over their strike.
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The COEASU President, Mr. Emmanuel Nkoro who confirmed the June 24th meeting said that he has high hopes that all the issues will be resolved during the meeting so that the lecturer's strike will be called off.
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It will be recalled that are on strike over the non-implementation of Peculiar Academic Allowance to the tune of N5.6bn, imposition of integrated IPPIS, inadequate funding of the teaching practice, non- accreditation of NCE programmes, non-release of Whitepaper on Visitation Panel Reports 2011, non-implementation of CONPCASS in some states, non-institution of dual mode which allows colleges of education the autonomy to award degrees in core education courses to run concurrently with the NCE programmes among others.
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The Federal Government should do more to ensure that the rot in our education system is stopped.