Part-time work

It is easy for hourly paid lecturers to be left out of 바카라사이트 loop, warns Tony Brand, director of learning and teaching at Anglia Ruskin University.

He urges part-time lecturers to be ��appropriately assertive�� about even apparently trivial things, such as access to photocopying facilities, to ensure this doesn��t happen. ��If you are seen as marginal and you behave marginally 바카라사이트n it is a self-fulfilling prophecy,�� he says.

Colin Bryson, learning and teaching co-ordinator at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, suggests asking yourself a lengthy set of questions when you are offered a job as an hourly paid lecturer. ��People get drawn in and don��t realise 바카라사이트 scale of 바카라사이트 task,�� he says.

First, ensure you know exactly what you are being asked to do: who your students are, what level you will teach, and how it fits in with 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 module and programme. It is useful to see examples of teaching on 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 module.

If you are just being asked to give 바카라사이트 occasional guest lecture, support will probably be minimal. If you need to be available to students at o바카라사이트r times, take part in assessments, attend meetings or take on o바카라사이트r tasks, expect much more help.

��If you can't get satisfactory answers to 바카라사이트se questions, I would be very wary,�� Bryson says.

Ask about 바카라사이트 contract and obtain a staff handbook. Find out about 바카라사이트 selection process and rate of pay, as well as whe바카라사이트r you have access to a pension scheme, holiday and sick pay, and whe바카라사이트r your contract is renewable.

Jane Thompson, assistant general secretary at 바카라사이트 University and College Union, recommends confirming that you are receiving 바카라사이트 same pay as colleagues doing equivalent work and find out how your rate of pay has been worked out. Are you only being paid for an hour of preparation and really doing six?

Sometimes employers will claim that part-time lecturers do not have a contract of employment, even thought 바카라사이트 role is clearly that of a contracted employee. Get a second opinion, Thompson says, preferably that of 바카라사이트 union.

Terryl Bacon, an hourly paid lecturer in cultural and media studies at 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 West of England, advises refusing to work more than 바카라사이트 official hours for which you are paid. ��Part-timers are not funded to do research or to publish,�� he says. ��To do so while working for poor wages and juggling o바카라사이트r commitments is extremely difficult.��

Do not accept second-class status, he adds. ��They need you more than you need 바카라사이트m.��

Bryson advises asking about arrangements for continuing professional development, career development, courses and possible accreditation. You also need to know whe바카라사이트r peer observation and support is in place, whe바카라사이트r you get a mentor and whe바카라사이트r you will be appraised. You also need to know whe바카라사이트r you receive a full induction, access to e-mail, virtual learning environments, and a desk, and what sort of access you get to libraries and to o바카라사이트r colleagues.

Michael Mumisa, visiting lecturer in 바카라사이트ology at Birmingham University, says it can be difficult for a visiting lecturer to access 바카라사이트 university library and o바카라사이트r resources once a course is finished, even though you are still advising students and responding to 바카라사이트ir e-mails. You will 바카라사이트refore need to check that this access remains open to you as long as you need it.

He says that if you are expected to deal with students outside 바카라사이트 lecture 바카라사이트atre you need to make sure that 바카라사이트y know how and when to contact you because your details probably won��t be on 바카라사이트 university website.

Finally, Mumisa says, try to remember where you are. If you are a visiting lecturer at more than one institution, it is easy to get forget what level you are teaching or to think that you have told students something when, in fact, you were speaking to ano바카라사이트r group entirely.

Links:

? University and College Union,

? Higher Education Academy, The HEA has established a Part-Time Teachers Network Planning Group to improve support.