Canadian professor threatened to fail student caught up in Myanmar coup

York University apologises after academic dismissed request for exam deferral from student where internet had been shut down

College instructors are all too familiar with the frantic, sometimes implausible excuses that students offer to get out of taking an exam.

But a university in Canada has been forced to take action after a professor threatened to fail a student who requested an extension because they were in Myanmar, where the military government was shutting down the country's internet.