Academics at Queen’s University Belfast have agreed to start marking students’ work again after negotiating a deal with university management.
The branch has become the first involved in the pay and working conditions dispute to resume all assessment duties, despite the current impasse in the national negotiations.
About 750 students at Queen’s had been due to graduate without receiving their final degree mark because of the boycott. Earlier, 10 students who had received their results were then told they were being withdrawn, with the university blaming “human error at an extremely challenging and difficult time”, BBC News reported.
As part of the settlement, all students’ work will be marked by 7 August to allow exam boards to finalise results by the end of the summer, the two parties said in a statement.
