Scotland’s Lecturers Attack “Caste System” of Fixed-Term Contracts

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 them on fixed-term contracts. Great Britain’s Association of University Teachers claims there could be 4,000 academics in Scotland working under such terms, and that a lack of job […]