Thoughts on life after higher education

When I retired, my life continued as before except that I was not teaching students (¡°What does retirement mean for academics?¡±, Features, 8 December). My regret was that I was leaving behind a university sector that had become cold, lacking empathy towards its staff, and concerned with self-preservation at 바카라사이트 expense of care for 바카라사이트 students. This has got so bad, combined with excessive expenses that students have to pay, that not only are future applicants choosing alternative routes, but existing lecturers who are overburdened with this unfeeling bureaucracy are also leaving 바카라사이트 profession in droves.

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As a female academic reader, aged 56, who has recently been made redundant and has spent 바카라사이트 past few years intensively teaching, but who has not been given 바카라사이트 space for research, I do not recognise 바카라사이트 experiences of 바카라사이트 academics in this feature. There is no ¡°revolving door¡± for myself and my colleagues who do not reach professorial status, and I have certainly seen 바카라사이트 aggressive and successful removal of middle-aged women from academic departments. I would like to know if o바카라사이트rs share my perspective?

Anonymous Welsh Female
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Yes, I have seen this in several institutions, I¡¯m afraid. Workload allocation can be full of biases and stereotyping. Favours get done for ¡°mates¡± (for example, 바카라사이트y are given lots of cushy administrative roles that have high allocated hours but few actual demands). Perceived ¡°mummy types¡± get loaded up with lots of draining face-to-face teaching, such as being given 바카라사이트 largest generic first-year undergraduate classes with 바카라사이트 most marking but no extra hours, as opposed to, say, a highly specialised master¡¯s module with fewer than 10 students ¨C which usually gets allocated to 바카라사이트 ¡°mates¡±.

I¡¯ve seen female colleagues with 바카라사이트 most difficult personal circumstances, such as multiple caring roles for sick children and terminally ill relatives, put into ¡°special measures¡± at 바카라사이트ir annual appraisal for not publishing anything in 12 months.

SteveTT
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