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Africa-Press<\/a> – Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>University of Malawi students in Zomba have staged a protest to force school authorities to suspend Online Learning citing Internet challenges. In a petition served to the school administration which we have seen, the students are demanding that Online classes be suspended until they are given data bundles by the administration to facilitate their learning process.<\/p>\n

The students have beamoned narrow coverage of Eduroam WiFi which they say has led to enormous expenses incurred by students using their own data bundles as well as clustering of many students in specific hotspots hence exposing them to the risk of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

They have since urged the authorities to struck a deal with mobile service providers to make facilities like google-meet freely accessible to student\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should also make sure that Eduroam WiFi connection is stabilised and it\u2019s coverage increased to cover the entire campus,\u201d reads the petition in part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. University of Malawi students in Zomba have staged a protest to force school authorities to suspend Online Learning citing Internet challenges. In a petition served to the school administration which we have seen, the students are demanding that Online classes be suspended until they are given data bundles by the administration to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,1056,234,1055,236],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-internet-challenges","tag-malawi","tag-online-learning","tag-university-of-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nUnima Students Protest against Online Learning Due to Internet Challenges - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"University of Malawi students in Zomba have staged a protest to force school authorities to suspend Online Learning citi ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-online-learning-due-to-internet-challenges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unima Students Protest against Online Learning Due to Internet Challenges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"University of Malawi students in Zomba have staged a protest to force school authorities to suspend Online Learning citi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-online-learning-due-to-internet-challenges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-14T12:48:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/07\/img-60eedc893127c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"735\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-online-learning-due-to-internet-challenges#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-online-learning-due-to-internet-challenges\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Unima Students Protest against Online Learning Due to Internet Challenges\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-14T12:48:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-online-learning-due-to-internet-challenges\"},\"wordCount\":162,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-online-learning-due-to-internet-challenges#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/07\/img-60eedc893127c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Internet challenges\",\"Malawi\",\"Online Learning\",\"University of Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-online-learning-due-to-internet-challenges#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-online-learning-due-to-internet-challenges\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/unima-students-protest-against-online-learning-due-to-internet-challenges\",\"name\":\"Unima Students Protest against Online Learning Due to Internet Challenges - 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