It’s quite sad this because, of course, I sympathise with badly-paid educators, but know that it’s quite harsh on the students.
That will show the students! Yeah!
Stick it to them, since they are in control of your pay and conditions, that’s a great decision! Way to get the students and their families on board with your strike action!
Students need to start getting refunds from the universities. It’d actually add some leverage aside from “let’s fuck over some teenagers to annoy our employees/employers”.
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Have to keep repeating its rarely mentioned how punitive universities are being with their staff over this. 50% pay docked for every month you participate is the norm (even though marking is maybe 5 to 10% of your workload) with some institutes going all the way to 100%. It needs to be added as well with the way universities are structured, many of us working *do not want* to be teaching, there just is very little choice if you want to be working in research. So we’re forced into a job we don’t really want to do, have these silly tasks dumped on us that get in the way of our *real* jobs, and then have literally half or more of our pay taken away when we point out we’re already working ridiculous hours for, at this point, a wage that is borderline insulting. I don’t know what the strategy is here, just making academia like medicine, so unattractive no one in their right mind would choose it as a career.
Which will affect some students looking to carry on with their studies if they cannot prove they have met the necessary grades required by their master’s/PhD courses or graduate schemes. It is going to fuck up the futures of more than one or two people.
I’m an administrator at a uni currently working into the small hours with a small group of colleagues to try and gets enough marks processed and verified so that we can try to graduate students this week.
The amount of additional work this has created is unreal. Complex new rules (re: how to deal with missing marks) that have to be implemented manually as the multi-million pound IT system can’t do maths.
I work in HE because I want to be part of something decent. After the thousands of extra hours (unpaid of course) through Covid, now this, I’m not sure I have another year like this left in me.
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It’s quite sad this because, of course, I sympathise with badly-paid educators, but know that it’s quite harsh on the students.
That will show the students! Yeah!
Stick it to them, since they are in control of your pay and conditions, that’s a great decision! Way to get the students and their families on board with your strike action!
Students need to start getting refunds from the universities. It’d actually add some leverage aside from “let’s fuck over some teenagers to annoy our employees/employers”.
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Have to keep repeating its rarely mentioned how punitive universities are being with their staff over this. 50% pay docked for every month you participate is the norm (even though marking is maybe 5 to 10% of your workload) with some institutes going all the way to 100%. It needs to be added as well with the way universities are structured, many of us working *do not want* to be teaching, there just is very little choice if you want to be working in research. So we’re forced into a job we don’t really want to do, have these silly tasks dumped on us that get in the way of our *real* jobs, and then have literally half or more of our pay taken away when we point out we’re already working ridiculous hours for, at this point, a wage that is borderline insulting. I don’t know what the strategy is here, just making academia like medicine, so unattractive no one in their right mind would choose it as a career.
Which will affect some students looking to carry on with their studies if they cannot prove they have met the necessary grades required by their master’s/PhD courses or graduate schemes. It is going to fuck up the futures of more than one or two people.
I’m an administrator at a uni currently working into the small hours with a small group of colleagues to try and gets enough marks processed and verified so that we can try to graduate students this week.
The amount of additional work this has created is unreal. Complex new rules (re: how to deal with missing marks) that have to be implemented manually as the multi-million pound IT system can’t do maths.
I work in HE because I want to be part of something decent. After the thousands of extra hours (unpaid of course) through Covid, now this, I’m not sure I have another year like this left in me.