Summer is never easy for Britain's university students, coinciding as it does with the stress of exams. This year, however, the stress is all the other way. Locked in a bitter pay dispute with their, employers, lecturers are refusing to set papers and have not marked coursework since March, though students are begging them to do both. Many exams have been cancelled, and those that have not may never be graded. Three-quarters of students who are supposed to graduate this summer could leave without final degrees. Talks between lecturers' unions and their universities broke down on May 8th.
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