The Education Committee holds the final session of its inquiry investigating the impact of the marking and assessment boycott on university students.
Witnesses from Durham University, King’s College London, and Queen’s University Belfast, along with the Higher Education Minister Robert Halfon MP, face questioning.
As part of a long-running industrial dispute over pay, pensions and working conditions, University and College Union members at more than 140 institutions took part in a marking and assessment boycott last year.
This resulted in students experiencing delays in receiving their final grades and postponed graduation dates, due to staff disengagement from essential marking and assessment processes.
The cross-party Committee is interested in what impact this had on students’ studies and will ask the universities what measures they took to mitigate the impact.
