by Domenico Pacitti OVER 650 ANGRY students from the faculty of foreign languages and literature at the University of Bari in southern Italy have petitioned the rector to reinstate…
Colleagues Abroad
by Domenico Paccitti SOME 1,500 FOREIGN-language lecturers, or lettori, who teach their mother-tongue in over sixty Italian universities recently had their fourth job discrimination case against the…
by TAA Staff THE FACULTY UNION at Algonquin College, in Nepean, Ontario, has filed several grievances regarding college hiring part-time and sessional faculty over full-time faculty. “This…
Stating that it would soon decide whether the experience of a part-time lecturer would count for the purpose of filling principal posts at Gurukul residential schools and colleges in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
