February 22, 2004
Lecturers on strike in the UK
From the BBC:
Lecturers and other university staff have organised a week of strikes around the UK. They are protesting over pay, re-grading of jobs and plans to allow individual universities to decide salaries, rather than the current national system. . .Lecturers say their wages have fallen by 40% in real terms since the early 1980s.
Dr Loney said: "We don't get paid as well as teachers. I've nothing against teachers getting paid well, but we should get the same. We do as much work or more. . . We don't have summer vacations like teachers. For us, it's the main time of the year for carrying out research."
"Right now people are quite depressed. We come in on a relatively low salary. This makes it difficult to do things like buy a house and generally get on with life."
Posted by David on February 22, 2004 12:13 PM
Have you seen this one:http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/12111_Argonauts.html?
Posted by: CLaudia on February 22, 2004 3:17 PM
Am I the only one so ignorant as to not know the difference between a "lecturer" and a teacher?
Posted by: Mike Rentner on February 23, 2004 12:33 PM
Only the Brits can be "quite depressed" when their fabulous tertiary system (elitist bloodcurdling Oxbridge crap and all) is being treated like a tethered animal kept as a food supply in a leach farm. "Don't point at the man mumbling in the ditch dear, he's a homeless university lecturer preparing a course.."
Jokes and rhetoric aside, the attack on universities is a serious cultural problem.
Posted by: david tiley on February 23, 2004 9:12 PM
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