The University and College Union (UCU) has ended its five-month-long marking and assessment boycott but has called five further days of strike action to coincide with the start of the new academic year.
In an indicative vote on whether to continue the boycott – which left thousands of students unable to graduate – 60 per cent of members voted in favour of suspending the action.
Academics would have had to resume assessment work at the end of September anyway – when UCU’s current mandate for taking industrial action finishes – but the union informed employers on 6 September it was withdrawing the action early.
Five days of strikes will affect up to 136 universities between September 25 and 29 as the long-running dispute over pay and working conditions continues.
