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Don't Oxford have 30 academic weeks a year? Dividing that salary by 30 weeks and by 6 hours per week which they keep repeating means getting paid at approximately £75 per hour. £75 per hour is not a bad rate for someone who is still studying themselves on their doctorate. Even if there's three extra hours per week for the other stuff which they're repeatedly implying there isn't then that still works out at £50 per hour.
The job requires:
Teaching 2 year-long theory classes. Depending on the person's experience, that's anywhere between 5-10 hours a week in preparation, 2-3 hours a week in lecturing, and another hour in grading.
6 hours of tutorials a week means not only spending those 6 hours, but also preparing for them. Add a few more hours for that.
Ability to teach other classes suggests they might want the person to teach another class. Add another 8-14 hours for that.
Advisor to grad students is easily 5-10 hours a week.
Undergrad admissions could eat up as many as 40 hours a week, though only for perhaps a month a year.
The person is also expected to do research, since there's no chance in hell of them ever getting another job otherwise. That's a solid 5-10 hours a week during term-time, and 20-30 hours a week during the "vacation"
So what you're looking at is a full-time job requiring working 40-50 hours a week for 2/3 of the year, and perhaps 20-30 hours a week the rest of the time. For that, the person is getting paid 1/3 less than someone flipping burgers at McDonald's. And this after having completed (or about to complete) their Ph.D.
Hope is the denial of reality
Sorry but being expected to do research is part and parcel of being a PhD student already it is literally a key part of why they are a student in the first place. You can't count that as work unless you think all PhD students should get paid. Nor can you include another class hours that you've randomly thrown in because if they were teaching another class they'd get paid for that class too. The job is for this class only.
The rest of the time I think is an exaggeration too but even including that your numbers still don't remotely add up.
Assuming the student is 25 plus they'd get £7.50 per hour for a minimum wage job (less if younger). To be "one third less" than what someone flipping burgers makes the person flipping burgers would need to be working 90 hours per week if we look at a 30 week term time. Working steady shifts for 52 weeks of a year they'd need to be working roughly 52 hours a week.
Ooh I'd misread the article too. The article specifically says the job is for each eight week term. That means 24 weeks. So they're getting paid £558.96 per week for what is being posted as a six hour per week job. £93.16 per hour.
For it to be a third less than a "burger flipper" gets the burger flipper would need to be over 25 and working 112 hours per week. If you include the additional £500 research allowance the burger flipper would need to be working over 116 hours per week.
The PhD research is essentially a requirement for this job and it should therefore be counted.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Wait, what? Whether the person is a Ph.D. student or not (the job ad suggests the person should already have the Ph.D.), they're not a student at Oxford. Oxford is getting an employee. The job is a fixed-term lectureship. Research is a key part of being a lecturer. Each university in Britain gets judged on the quantity of its research. This has a major impact on funding decisions.
Yeah, it's not like I actually do things or anything. Or work in the same field.The rest of the time I think is an exaggeration too but even including that your numbers still don't remotely add up.
You seem to have no idea what research is. Do you actually think research means writing a dissertation and then chilling for the rest of your career?The student already has or is completing the PhD so it should not be counted. An employer is never obligated to pay for what someone already has.
Ok, let's start with 24 weeks for teaching. Add 2-3 weeks for giving and grading exams. Another 3-4 for admissions. Another few weeks for preparing syllabi. Closer to 32 weeks now. And you're fully expected to do research the rest of the time. If you don't, you don't get retained and you don't get hired elsewhere.That means 24 weeks. So they're getting paid £558.96 per week for what is being posted as a six hour per week job. £93.16 per hour.
Hope is the denial of reality
On a side note over here PHD students in at least STEM fields (probably other fields as well but not 100% sure) are paid, as they are working 40+ hours a week for the university (research in the labs, teaching, grading etc.). Not an excellent pay but not bad either.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
The job is getting posted as a part-time 6 hour a week for 24 weeks post not a full time permanent post.
Yeah its not like you're the first person in a field to think that he and his colleagues deserve more money. Funny how everyone thinks they're undervalued and nobody ever says how overpaid they are.Yeah, it's not like I actually do things or anything. Or work in the same field.
We'll see if they're unable to find someone to fill the vacancy. Something tells me they will be able to which means the free market thinks it isn't underpaid.
No I think its not part of the job description, because its not.You seem to have no idea what research is. Do you actually think research means writing a dissertation and then chilling for the rest of your career?
So you can maybe shift that £93.16 per hour based on the universities job description down to say £70 an hour. Good look finding a McDonalds burger flipper on 50% more than that like you claimed!Ok, let's start with 24 weeks for teaching. Add 2-3 weeks for giving and grading exams. Another 3-4 for admissions. Another few weeks for preparing syllabi. Closer to 32 weeks now. And you're fully expected to do research the rest of the time. If you don't, you don't get retained and you don't get hired elsewhere.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Why not just use an "I am not a robot" checkbox?
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Alternative: play the score faster. Even faster than its creator meant for it to be played. And see what happens. New story problem.
I heard a thing on the radio where Beethoven's 5th was played at extreme speeds. Not by bots, but real people who'd been "trained" to think/play a certain way (with limits) and were amazed and gratified by challenging speed once thought impossible. As a listener it didn't make much difference, but I did get a kick out of classical music played by people actually strumming instruments, instead of computers doing the work. It still sounded good, just different.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/866...t-restrictions
This country. Jesus.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
I realized that a large part of my home ownership mentality surrounded around collecting stuff, and having space to store that stuff. Now that I'm downsizing, cleaning out my basement and garage, and moving to an apartment....it's amazing the amount of stuff that's now become irrelevant (snow shovels, water hoses and garden hoes) that used to need space. Even the oversized 2 car garage is a WTF moment.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42070712An Oxford graduate's failure to get a top degree cost him a lucrative legal career, the High Court has heard.
Faiz Siddiqui alleges "inadequate" teaching on his modern history course resulted in him getting a low upper second degree in June 2000.
He blames staff being absent on sabbatical leave and is suing the university for £1m.
Hope is the denial of reality
That time where taxation actually was theft
When the sky above us fell
We descended into hell
Into kingdom come
Police are "hopeful but guarded" that they caught the local serial killer. People are partying and celebrating like its 1999. People let their guard down once before when they were hoping that the Home Depot truck attack in New York was the work of our serial killer. Hoping the police have the right guy and no one else dies needlessly.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
WTF on many levels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/w...en-prison.html
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What the fuck is wrong with people?
Last night I had to have words with ER staff for not providing a taxi home for an elderly lady with no money who was sent home in the middle of the night. To me, that was a sign of callous disregard for an elderly person's circumstances. This... this is just wrong.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
That's a sad story but what exactly should the facility have done?
They attempted to contact family. They contacted several agencies and she refused to accept their help.
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Was anyone surprised that he was a former Tory politician?
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https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-slow...CAD-09-10aai5b
Apple finally admits that it slows older phones, blames it on users being to stupid to understand how rechargeable batteries work.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...story,amp.html
Lewkowskian utopia.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
White teeth genocide
Meanwhile in Brexit Britain, a shady company that's just been bailed out by a shady minister, goes on the offense against professionalism:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42542640
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