Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee found favor with part-time teachers in the state-aided colleges across Bengal when the government decided to take up a proposal to enhance their pay despite a funds crunch. “I am shocked to learn that part-time teachers in colleges are getting a...
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Part-time lecturers in Korea belong to the low-income sector and their welfare status is worrisome, lawmakers recently said, citing data provided during October’s National Assembly inspection hearings. At a session.
by Jo Gibson Years ago, I was serving jury duty and an attorney asked during voir dire what I did for a living. “I free-lance,” I replied. The judge, brooking.
by Chris Cumo Actor Russell Crowe, as Maximus Decimus Meridius, recreated a cinematic version of gladiatorial combat in ancient Rome. Dean Davies is in pursuit of the real gladiators. Yet conventional wisdom labels Davies an anomaly. He has taught English part-time at Mesa State College...
by Christopher Cumo In Canada, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) represents full-time faculty, and roughly equal numbers of sessionals (part-time fac-ulty) and graduate students, estimates Mary McCarthy, a.
This issue marks the second time we have looked at the use of part-time faculty in countries other than the United States. The first time, in the May/June 2002 issue,.
by Henry Rodgers “The European Commission asks that the Court of Justice impose on the Italian Republic a penalty payment of EUR 309,750 for each day’s delay in complying with the judgement of the Court in Case C-212/99, from the day on which the Court...
by Shaik Osman Majid I recently received an offer to teach, on a part-time basis, at an established private college. The first course was “News Management,” designed for final year undergraduates. The second,.
by Christopher Cumo In Canada, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) represents full-time faculty, and roughly equal numbers of sessionals (part-time fac-ulty) and graduate students, estimates Mary McCarthy, a.
In February of 2004, fixed-term lecturers at Elizabeth Buie University launched a major campaign against what they describe as the “caste system” which disadvantages researchers by keeping them on fixed-term contracts. Great Britain’s Association of University Teachers claims there could be 4,000 academics in Scotland...
