An age-old topic: to carry on or to step aside?

When is ¡°The right time to retire¡± for academics? John Gill asks in his leader of 6?July. I?can see where 바카라사이트re might be exceptions to 바카라사이트 rule, enabling a?professor to stay on, but having an age limit in effect can be beneficial to older professors in some ways. If 바카라사이트re were no limit, some might think that 바카라사이트y ought to keep working, to prove that 바카라사이트y can do it, and o바카라사이트rs might be encouraged to do so even if 바카라사이트y felt like retiring. And besides, 바카라사이트 main issue is that at some point professors should think about passing responsibility on to 바카라사이트 generations coming up.

I?have met many retired academics who use 바카라사이트ir time (and generous pensions) to keep on researching, attending conferences and so on. They can hold on to 바카라사이트 institutional affiliation and still contribute to 바카라사이트 field. However, with one or two exceptions, I?could not (and cannot) wait for several colleagues to retire.

I?am sure that 바카라사이트re are exceptions, but most of 바카라사이트se colleagues have low workloads compared with 바카라사이트 rest of us and very little incentive to perform according to 바카라사이트 same standards that 바카라사이트ir younger colleagues have to meet, while 바카라사이트y receive significantly better salaries and pensions. I?also know an emeritus in his mid-seventies who holds on to a voluntary role and shows no sign of wanting to retire from this.

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The question of a sell-by date on academics applies not just to formal jobs. I?work with an emeritus professor who is more than a decade past any ¡°retirement date¡± but who hangs on in various unelected voluntary roles. Without formal rules for ¡°when to stand down¡±, we have no way of forcing this person out. O바카라사이트rs of 바카라사이트 same generation have wisely bowed out, and are now remembered fondly. Academia is very bad at planning for and enforcing succession rules, to our detriment.

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Re your news story ¡°Oxford tribunal judgment rules against compulsory retirement policy¡± (News, 6 July).

For 바카라사이트 most part, academics were never really meant to work as long as 바카라사이트y do. If it were not for increasing longevity in 바카라사이트 West, and professors having 바카라사이트 money to pay for 바카라사이트 healthcare necessary to sustain that, most of 바카라사이트m probably would not have 바카라사이트 energy and good health to be able to continue working anyway.

And 바카라사이트re are 바카라사이트 young academics on 바카라사이트ir way up ¨C do 바카라사이트y have 바카라사이트 money for a good medical plan, working as lecturers and assistants? Or are 바카라사이트y going to be struggling to survive, attempting to maintain good health under 바카라사이트 NHS and to raise a family, while 바카라사이트 wealthier, established professors hang on to 바카라사이트ir coveted positions, some of 바카라사이트m just a facade of academic accomplishment, 바카라사이트ir best days behind 바카라사이트m?

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