Being in limbo meaning8/15/2023 ![]() She argues that even if her ultimate degree class is not disadvantaged, she is at a disadvantage in this job hunt while she’s waiting. ![]() Owen is hoping to enter the legal profession. Attitudes, motivations and mental health were suffering.” The university kept saying no student will be disadvantaged, but they kept missing the point. As students our whole world is academic work and all that work was just being made futile and neglected. I’ve been spending 14-16 hours a day in the library to submit work that was as good as I wanted it to be, knowing that it wouldn’t be marked. “My predicament is I’m in the large group of Durham students who will be graduating without a degree,” she says. Lily Owen is in her final year of combined honours social sciences: history, business, politics and sociology. Both of these are jobs that require a degree.” I have a friend who’s been offered a Civil Service fast track job, and he has the same thing – he doesn’t know when he can tell them. “They sent me an email saying we need to know your degree, and I’ve had to tell them that I don’t know if I’ll know for a few months. Hutchison has a place on Teach First, the scheme that encourages graduates to complete a two year teaching qualification, for later this year. But equally doesn’t demonise the strikers. “The university – and I think this is the case nationally – seems blase about what’s happening, and is keen to paint itself as the good guy. One of the students affected is Ben Hutchison, a modern languages student at Durham in his fourth and final year. It is yet another period of limbo for a generation that has had its education repeatedly disrupted, first by the pandemic and then by academic upheaval. ![]() As a result, thousands of students up and down the country face the prospect of graduating with a provisional grade or not getting one at all. The latest front in the ongoing industrial action by British academics, which has been simmering, on and off, for five years, is to leave exam papers unmarked while they are on strike. It looks like some of them won’t even get a mark at all, let alone a pass or fail. Universities vary in when they release results but they are usually all out by the first week of July. Future studies, jobs, whole career paths can hang on the difference between a first and a 2.1, or a third and a fail. In the usual run of things, it is when they anxiously await their grades and plan for the rest of their lives. This ought to be an exciting time of year for students graduating from university.
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