Don't know if you heard but there is a marking and assessment boycott going on in UK universities. Anyone who's in the union (i.e., about 50% of staff) has been refusing to mark any exams, final year projects, etc., for about the past four weeks. Among the grievances is a real-terms cut in pay around 15% since 2009, and some other things like hiring on zero-hour contracts, etc..

The upshot of this boycott is that students won't be able to graduate or progress into their next year because their marks aren't in. Our College has responded by making up some emergency regulations to sidestep the rules and allow students to graduate without marks, which the departments are resisting for obvious reasons (similar things going on at other unis from what I hear). In psychology, the British Psychological Society is threatening to pull the accreditation of any course that engages in slippery practices to graduate students.

Meanwhile no signs of budging between the universities and the union. Things getting pretty tense, something's going to have to give here soon...