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All students at Queen’s University Belfast will graduate this year, but an estimated 750 will have their classifications pending.

The situation has been impacted by ongoing industrial action by staff over pay, working conditions and pensions.

The action, led by the University and College Union (UCU), included strikes earlier this year and a boycott of marking final exam papers and assessment.

On Tuesday Queen’s said all students will graduate, following work to reduce the impact of the UK-wide marking and assessment boycott (Mab) by the UCU.

In a statement the university said an estimated 750 students across law, history, anthropology, politics, architecture, psychology, music, environmental planning, archaeology, sociology and criminology will have their degree classification pending.

However Queen’s said any student with a pending classification wishing to continue to a postgraduate course at the university can do so.

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