“I don’t maintain a level in my hand,” Alex Mohan Morzeria-Davis advised their fellow college students in a speech on commencement day. “As a substitute, I maintain an apology letter stuffed with platitudes and an inventory of programs with the letters TBC as an alternative of a mark subsequent to them.”
Mohan Morzeria-Davis, a scholar on the College of Edinburgh, is one among many college students throughout the nation whose closing papers haven’t been marked. After beginning their research underneath Covid restrictions, this 12 months group has confronted many disruptions to their programs. Now they’re graduating and not using a mark and a pile of scholar debt.
The College and Faculty Union (UCU), which represents many UK college lecturers, is engaged in a marking boycott over pay and dealing circumstances. Mohan Morzeria-Davis and fellow college students David Popelka and Jess Leigh focus on the influence the boycott has had on them. And the journalist Anna Fazackerley tells Michael Safi what the strike is about and why the funding of universities has develop into so precarious.
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