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July Higher Ed Labor Summit Vision Platform Claims Adjuncts “Present A Threat” to Student Retention and Success

by P.D. Lesko For two days in early July, around 300 representatives from 75 higher education labor groups came together virtually to hammer out a Vision Plan that addresses challenges that face “the U.S. Higher Education System.” The Vision Plan states that the goal of...

Malaysia’s Largest University Looks to Trim Jobs of 600 Part-time Lecturers After Funding Cut

by Rahimi Yunus Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) is likely to terminate its part-time lecturer program and trim its strategic plan after funding was slashed under Budget 2021 announced this month..

Kagawa University Investigated for Employing 400 Part-time Lecturers on Service Contracts

by Sahomi Nishimoto The education ministry has begun investigating Kagawa University in western Japan following the finding that it has left classes in the hands of about 400 part-time lecturers.

An Interview With the Authors of THE NEW PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education

(Johns Hopkins University Press; December 29, 2020), Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch outline a more timely and versatile PhD that will end this waste of talent and treasure. The authors describe how to renovate academia’s highest degree to ready PhD graduates to use their expertise more...

To Protect the Jobs of Australian Casuals, Union Calls for Across the Board Staff Pay Cuts

by Jess Harris, Kathleen Smithers and Nerida Spina The National Tertiary Education Union this week struck an agreement with universities that no ongoing university staff member would be stood down involuntarily without.

Before His Death, Canadian Adjunct Prof. Was Under Investigation for Sexual Harassment

by Raechel Huizinga Former adjunct English Professor Andrew Bretz, who passed away on Aug. 21, 2018 at the age of 42, was under investigation for sexual harassment by the University.

UK Member of the European Parliament Asks EU to Stop Discrimination Against Foreign Lecturers in Italy

AdjunctNation has been following the struggle of non-tenured lecturers in Italy since 2002. ALLSI Chair David Petrie is still fighting for equal pay and equal treatment for hundreds of non-Italians who teach at universities throughout Italy. Most recently, Jude Kirton-Darling MEP has written to the...

PTer Union in Japan Negotiates End to Fixed-Term Employment Contracts

The abolition of the limited-term employment system at the University of Tokyo allows contract full- or part-time administration staff and (from April this year) part-time teachers to apply for, and.

S. Korean Legislators Passed the Higher Education Act to Help PT Lecturers—PTers Union Alleges 20K Lost Jobs

However, considering the decrease in the number of both overall and small-sized classes in the first semester, a large number of part-time lecturers could have been fired or at least.

Teaching in Japan: Foreign Lecturers Fight for Better Treatment

Foreign academics also face the insecurity of short-term contracts as universities cut budgets, and being relegated to the periphery due to exclusion from core academic meetings at Japanese institutions. This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose...

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