UK Facing End-Of-Year Academic Crisis

There is an ongoing targeted strike in the UK by lecturers at the country’s universities, and as the school year draws to a close, the continued refusal of lecturers to mark papers, assign grades, and give tests puts thousands of British students at risk of having their graduation delayed. “Many universities [expect] the greatest disruption to take place in subjects such as history, sociology and education, where academic staff tend to be the most unionised.”