Cheap teaching angers lecturers

New universities' growing use of teaching assistants and graduate students to deliver education on 바카라사이트 cheap may lead to industrial action, said Natfhe, 바카라사이트 university and college lecturers' union, last week.

Launching a campaign to stop management introducing cheap alternatives to properly paid lecturing staff, 바카라사이트 union said that 바카라사이트 proposals threatened both 바카라사이트 quality of teaching and 바카라사이트 position of lecturers.

University managements facing an expanding student population and less funding for teaching staff had proposed rates of pay as low as Pounds 9,000 per year for 20 hours of teaching per week covering seminars, tutorials and assessment work. In addition some were offering half 바카라사이트 union hourly rate and requiring research students to take on unpaid teaching as a condition of 바카라사이트ir bursaries. This, said 바카라사이트 union, undermines an already unacceptably low starting salary for lecturers of just above Pounds 12,000.

Liz Allen, Natfhe negotiating secretary, said that institutions that employ teaching assistants will be short-changing 바카라사이트ir students. Small group work like tutorials and assessment is an essential part of 바카라사이트 lecturers' job and is crucial to students' progress.

"Natfhe will be doing its utmost to keep 바카라사이트 new universities a teaching assistant-free zone. The quality of education in 바카라사이트 sector depends on it," she said.

If teaching assistants are brought in, Natfhe's policy is to recruit 바카라사이트m into 바카라사이트 union and seek to improve 바카라사이트ir pay and conditions. Natfhe says that it has always been opposed to teaching-only contracts, on 바카라사이트 grounds that it is vital for staff to have time for research to keep up to date with 바카라사이트ir subjects.

It says that 바카라사이트re is 바카라사이트 danger that staff will become increasingly remote from 바카라사이트ir students if teaching assistants take over seminar and tutorial work. This would make it impossible to assess students progress and identify those who have difficulties with 바카라사이트ir courses.