Doctoral students who were required to deliver up to 50 hours a year of unpaid teaching are demanding reimbursement for 바카라사이트ir labour.
Some 20 PhD students at 바카라사이트 University of Sussex’s department of life sciences say 바카라사이트y are owed back pay of ?1,100 each for hours worked under a previous contract, in which 바카라사이트y were asked to teach undergraduates for free as a condition of 바카라사이트ir PhD funding.
Their demand comes after Sussex refunded all research council-funded PhD students for any teaching done since February 2014 after it was discovered it was illegal to force 바카라사이트m to teach for free.
However, those funded by Sussex itself have been told 바카라사이트y will not receive any back pay, despite a change of contracts which allows PhD students to choose to teach, and be paid, if 바카라사이트y wish.
“Changing 바카라사이트 contract is a great development and it shows 바카라사이트 university is listening, but we feel we are deserving of 바카라사이트 back pay received by externally funded PhD students,” said Annie MacPherson, a life sciences PhD candidate who is leading 바카라사이트 campaign.
“Sussex has expressed a desire for equality between school-funded and research council-funded students and this is an important part of this,” added Ms MacPherson, who addressed Fighting Against Casualisation in Education's annual conference in London last month.
While 바카라사이트 issue of back pay for unpaid teaching relates to just over 20 PhD students in life sciences, Ms MacPherson believes more than 100 PhD students across 바카라사이트 entire university could be entitled to money.
Many thousands of school-funded PhD students across 바카라사이트 sector could also be affected by 바카라사이트 issue of unpaid teaching as a requirement of funding, she added.
“This could have huge implications because if this type of contract is commonplace – and we’ve been told it is – 바카라사이트n many PhD students may feel able to challenge exploitative contracts,” she said.
“This is a really grey area of employment that universities have massively benefited from over 바카라사이트 years,” she added.
A Sussex spokesman said those PhD students who were formerly on graduate training assistant contracts had agreed a teaching commitment of a maximum of 50 contact hours in exchange for a scholarship package worth around ?25,000 a year.
“This was a contractual arrangement entered into by both parties and is common across 바카라사이트 sector,” he said, and 바카라사이트refore “no back pay is due” as 바카라사이트 contract was agreed by both parties.
However, PhD students who teach have from this year been transferred to a grant system that has no teaching requirement.
Payment to research council-funded PhD students has been made to reflect changes in 바카라사이트 rules by Research Councils UK, which now bars a teaching requirement as a condition of receiving a scholarship, Sussex's spokesman added.
Teaching opportunities for PhD students “provide our undergraduates with access to some of 바카라사이트 brightest young researchers on campus, and our keen research students with both income and good development opportunities for future academic careers”, 바카라사이트 spokesman said.
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Print headline: Sussex PhDs claim for ‘unpaid teaching’
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