Students asking for makeup time for lost classes

Students at Concordia University are asking the administration to help them make up lost courses.

Striking students held a press conference on Wednesday calling on the university's administration to reschedule missed classes that have been affected by the province-wide strike against raised tuition fees.

The University made clear in a Town Hall meeting with students on Tuesday that any lost class time would not be made up at the end of the current semester and that exams would continue as planned.

Students want the administration to reconsider their stance to accommodate those who have lost most of their semester because of the strike. This would mean extending the semester and rescheduling exams.

The leader of one the province's student associations, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, told CTV that if the administration continues its stance, then he believes tension will rise on the campus.

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