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Why All Universities in Kenya Are Phasing Out PT Lecturers
By Ouma Wanzala The Kenyan Commission for University Education has announced that part-time lecturers will be phased out. The commission is determined to phase out part-time lecturers, saying most of them are giving substandard services to…
Lecturer Uses Facebook to Expose The Poor Working Conditions of Part-Time Instructors In South…
by Jean Marie Abellana About 70,000 lecturers from several universities in South Korea are working part-time. These teachers renew their job contracts every semester. While the majority of them desire to be given a full-time status, most…
Dutch Legislature Strengthens Temp. Faculty Contracts, Universities Thwart New Law
At universities in the Netherlands, an increasing number of university academic staff are being employed on flexible contracts, the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant reported in 2014. Over the past 17 years, the number of university staff on…
A Perspective from Canada—The Wage Gap that Plagues Non-Tenured Faculty is a Political Issue
by Gail Lethbridge With Frosh Week drawing to close and Labour Day still fresh in our memory, it’s a good time to ask who is teaching our university students. Many are full-time professors with good pay, health care benefits, vacations, job…
British University Rejects Criticism for Using Academic Title of "Hourly Paid Lecturers"…
by Jack Grove With so many variations of lecturer, fellow, reader and professor – such as senior, associate, visiting and principal – academic job titles are sometimes seen as confusing for British students. But a rather blunt job…
Contract Lecturers in India Cry Foul Over Pay Equity Issues
Even though the government stresses quality education and promises equal pay for equal work, at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, nearly 600 contract lecturers at the university staged a protest at the campus demanding the authorities…
UK Judge Blasts University Officials Who Filed Libel Suit Against PT Lecturer
by Andrew Hough Salford University, in Manchester, England, charges students up to £9,000 ($13,950) a year in tuition fees and axed 60 posts last year. University officials were accused by a judge of abusing the High Court’s processes in…
Is “Casualisation” of Faculty “Damaging” Post-Secondary Ed in Ireland?
by John MacGanhann Among the most damaging effects of the cutbacks in education is the casualisation of teaching and lecturing. Ironically, this is exacerbated by the abuse of legislation intended to protect employees against abuse. Many…
Indonesian PT Lecturer & Human Rights Leader Sacked After Op-Eds Critical of Government
By Bagus BT Saragih The Indonesian Defense University dismissed one of its non-permanent lecturers, Al Araf, after the media publicized the latter’s opinion pieces, which criticized the alleged irregularities in the government’s weapon…
Sessional Faculty in Canada and Adjunct Faculty in the U.S. Share More Than Just An International…
by Christopher Cumo Eileen Lohka taught French seven years at the University of Calgary as a sessional, what U.S. residents would call an adjunct. She followed her husband, a biologist, to the university and could not find full-time work in…