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Could you cope with eight different jobs a week?
5 March 2018
The BBC publishes an article on the often precarious nature of academic careers and the hugely negative impact on those starting out in academia.
The article comes on the back of new research by UCU on how much university teaching is done by hourly paid academics and explains how early career lecturers frequently have to juggle a number of different jobs, not always in higher education, in order to make ends meet and are often effectively paid below minimum wage for the hours they have to work.
Precarious lecturer
He also said UCU has found that 'there are tens of thousands of people teaching hundreds of thousands of hours of education who are being paid by the hour.'
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