A Chinese language newspaper recently reported that National Yunlin University of Science of Technology in Taipei was planning to hire Russian professors, by offering them just NT$10,000…
Colleagues Abroad
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee found favor with part-time teachers in the state-aided colleges across Bengal when the government decided to take up a proposal to enhance their…
Part-time lecturers in Korea belong to the low-income sector and their welfare status is worrisome, lawmakers recently said, citing data provided during October’s National Assembly inspection hearings.…
by Christopher Cumo In Canada, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) represents full-time faculty, and roughly equal numbers of sessionals (part-time fac-ulty) and graduate students, estimates…
This issue marks the second time we have looked at the use of part-time faculty in countries other than the United States. The first time, in the…
by Henry Rodgers “The European Commission asks that the Court of Justice impose on the Italian Republic a penalty payment of EUR 309,750 for each day’s delay…
by Shaik Osman Majid I recently received an offer to teach, on a part-time basis, at an established private college. The first course was “News Management,” designed for final year…
by Christopher Cumo In Canada, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) represents full-time faculty, and roughly equal numbers of sessionals (part-time fac-ulty) and graduate students, estimates…
In February of 2004, fixed-term lecturers at Elizabeth Buie University launched a major campaign against what they describe as the “caste system” which disadvantages researchers by keeping…
by Priscilla Shorne It is interesting in these days of corporate collapses and rising insurance premiums to consider the role of risk in our lives. We live…