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by bsenftner
4152 days ago
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Now, isn't the school simply reacting to the current fashion of Western Governments underfunding education? It is not like Universities are profitable, they operate on government funding, which is reducing year after year. He needs to take his situation to the public at large and get policy change at the national government level. |
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I have tried to have my job turned into a permanent one. The University has turned me down, and told me that giving me a permanent job is against “the strategic direction of the University, Faculty of Science and the Department”. The permanent faculty in the department will not support me because I am a teacher now, not an active scientific researcher.
The University, above anything is a place to teach. Yes, research is important, but above anything a place to teach. Striking the right teaching/research balance, specially in the sciences is difficult. But in my opinion most of the university budgets should go to teaching, and research should be secondary.
If lack of public funding is really the issue for not paying teachers, in my opinion, it's then when public universities should think like private institutons. Sure you can't compete with endowments like Hardvard, MIT or Stanford, but I think that the future of higher education is by finding the right private sector partners to carry out research.