| Comment | I'm waiting to hear about my application to our version of the R&T track (I'm at the *other* place) but given that your experience seems to be very common, I'm not really too bothered - it doesn't pay any more, and really the only advantage is permanent employment which as I've said in my case isn't really a problem
It's sad that the academic model is so broken - I don't have an issue with it being high pressure or competitive, we get to spunk away taxpayers money on research, after all - but I don't like that being good at the game doesn't generally equate to actually good research
And it's also sad that it's so incompatible with family life, and so many people like yourself leave once they've had kids. I was at an internal teaching training workshop recently, where they gave an example of an assessment being handed in by students on Friday afternoon, marked over the weekend and returned first thing Monday, as an example of *good* practice. Fuck that.
Anyway, time to go and mark 50 exam papers that aren't a part of my job spec nor am I supposedly authorised to do |
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