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…
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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…
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…
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…
With no job security and low pay in one of the most expensive cities in North America, hundreds of employees at a world-class university are struggling to simply…
The more than 2,600 survey respondents challenged the institutional line that most low-paid, short-term and part-time teachers love the flexibility of their contract employment. Instead they have…
by Ellie Bothwell More than 4,000 scholars have signed a petition calling for an academic boycott of international conferences held in the U.S., to provide solidarity with…
by Jack Grove More than half of academics are employed on precarious contracts, claims a report by the University and College Union on the “hire-and-fire culture of…
“We’re not looking for the mean salary or the median salary, we are looking to be tied with the bottom, and management (at Algoma) offered us zero…
Steve Hanson, 44, part-time lecturer in political sociology I have a doctorate from a great university; I’ve worked on government research projects, and have more published work…