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In Uganda Faculty Association Backs Firing of Part-time Lecturers
Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA) has backed the university’s new reforms, saying they will strengthen the quality of education and reduce wastage of resources. Speaking to AdjunctNation.com, MUASA Chairman…
Ph.D. as Minimum Qualification for Academic Staff in Nigerian Universities: A Policy of Self…
by Balarabe Yushau Last year, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Professor Julius Okojie (left) gave a threatening statement to all university lecturers in Nigeria—to the effect that all lecturers must…
The Part-Timer Who's Taking On Makerere University
by Rosebell Kagumire Over 200 students at Makerere University, in Uganda, could miss their graduation due next January 2009. This is because a part-time lecturer who hasn’t been paid for a year by the university is withholding student’s…
Taking a Sabbatical South of the Border: An Adjunct Retreats to Mexico
by Roy Freedman Upon waking up in Guanajuato, Mexico for the very first time, on January 4, 2008, I planned to connect with my chosen Spanish-language academy (my anchor, so to speak, in a foreign land). My second priority was locating a…
For Sale: English, Cheap.
by TomBentley What if rulers from a far-off land insisted that all subjects eat an allegedly beneficial imported cheese with a complex, challenging flavor? And what if a good percentage of the subjects were indifferent to eating it, or ate…
Teaching in Hungary Revitalizes One Adjunct’s Love For the Classroom
by Anthony Akers In the Fall of last year, I submitted my last will and testament of my teaching career to the readers of this publication, and my argument was simple: “Working as an adjunct is hell; we all know this; we can’t do much about…
La Vida Ecuadoriana: Teaching English in Ecuador.
by Michael D’Entremont A FEW YEARS ago, I saw a film at the Smithsonian Institute about the Galapagos Islands. When I saw the sea lions and the penguins lumbering and sunning themselves on the volcanic rock, I knew that I would go there…
Breathless Beauty: Share the secret of undiscovered Bolivia
by Jacqueline McEwan If I’m unlucky my day starts with the electronic beep-beep I loathe. The 6 a.m. alarm ready for a 7 a.m. class. Yes, 7 a.m….the most popular time for classes here, though often it’s only the teacher who actually…
A Warm Welcome in Chile
by John Shannon It is fair to say that Chile is only just beginning to appear on the ESL map. For many years geographically and politically isolated, Chile has not seen the same massive developments in ESL that have taken place in, for…
Teaching TEFL in Hong Kong is an Uphill Struggle
The teachers are comfortable with the lack of pressure for results and the easy pace of the curriculum, and they also accept quite happily that the majority of students can’t wait to leave the school at the end of every day instead of…