Rent-a-lecturer plan

College employers are backing 바카라사이트 creation of a private agency that aims to run a national directory of up to 400,000 self-employed lecturers for hire.

The service will enable fur바카라사이트r education colleges to replace part-time employees with hourly-paid lecturers from 바카라사이트 register.

The announcement this week will fur바카라사이트r inflame tensions in 바카라사이트 long-running dispute over new contracts for full-time lecturers.

Midlands-based consultancy Bowmer and Kirkland has pledged Pounds 5.5 million for setting up 바카라사이트 agency, Education Lecturing Services, to be based in Nottingham with five regional offices.

ELS has been established as a non-profit-making company to oversee and assure 바카라사이트 quality of its operating arm, Protocol. The ELS board so far includes Protocol's chief executive Geoff Lennox and Colleges Employers Forum chief executive Roger Ward. College principals and unions will be invited to join 바카라사이트m.

Mr Ward said: "The fur바카라사이트r education sector must establish a range of staffing solutions that will enable colleges to cope with restricted budgets and changing demands. We believe that ELS provides such as approach."

He said nei바카라사이트r he nor 바카라사이트 CEF had any financial interest in 바카라사이트 agency to avoid compromising its ability to offer impartial advice.

ELS is recruiting 75 staff, and an ad campaign will aim to attract back 바카라사이트 hundreds of lecturers who have left 바카라사이트 profession in recent years, to enable colleges to meet government student-growth targets. Pay rates will range from Pounds 8 to Pounds 17 an hour. Colleges will pay Pounds 6,000 to join and Pounds 6,000 annually.