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    L’ex presidente dell’Università di Limerick Kerstin Mey tiene lezioni una volta a settimana con uno stipendio di 175.000 euro


    L’ex presidente dell’Università di Limerick Kerstin Mey tiene lezioni una volta a settimana con uno stipendio di 175.000 euro

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/former-university-of-limerick-president-kerstin-mey-is-lecturing-once-a-week-on-175000-salary/a341876500.html?fbclid=Iwb21leANh-y1jbGNrA2H7HGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeGbuWhWLyTKpM4-Q_vkG4dzEY2I7Xueq6iKq0OJDeHK7TaR1pUCbm8i1W1sY_aem_OHTgMejDuPyIni4DmDjZow

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    2. PoppedCork on

      A bit of research and admin thrown in, and the uni can’t say how many.hours of that she does.

    7. Spuddlepiddle on

      Lefty intellectual is profligate with other peoples money. News at 6. The majority of the types who inhabit this sub will be delighted for her.

    9. JMcDesign1 on

      Considering Trinity tried to give Holohan a similar position and salary this shouldn’t be surprising.

    10. Final_Tradition_3439 on

      The country is full of grifters like this. Any organisation that receives state money, seems to be rotten from the inside

    11. Difficult_Tea6136 on

      This is normal.

      Most lecturers only have 1.5 modules a semester (2 in one semester, 1 in the other). I

    13. Fit-Breath-4345 on

      Shameful really, when you could pay her a more standard lecturing wage (I’m assuming they can’t fire her for some reason) and also hire 1-2 early career academics who actually need the money and the career security for that money.

    14. hurpederp on

      As a former UL student who still has business/work intersects with on campus life, what a disgrace.

      Disgusts me.

    15. SquashyRoo on

      While normal research and lecturing staff spend years on short term, precarious employment contracts.

      Managerialism and corporate style governance is really, really corrosive to universities.

    16. pgasmaddict on

      Add in the pension and that’s easily 275k. It’d make you fuckin sick.

    17. FixRevolutionary1427 on

      Obscene amounts of money being funnelled upwards to politicians, NGO CEOs, IPAS centre owners and public servants at the higher end of the scale. The whole structure needs an overhaul, the Irish taxpayer is being taken for a complete mug.

    18. DrZaiu5 on

      While the salary is very high, people seem to think that actual lecturing hours are the only work lecturers do. Of course in reality that’s just a tiny portion.

      For just teaching, on top of being actually in a lecture you need to consider prep time, creating lecture notes, office hours, answering student emails, creating assessments, grading assessments (takes ages) and redesigning curriculum.

      Then there’s admin not directly related to teaching. Most lecturers are a member of a committee or two. Most will be involved as a programme director.

      Then there’s supervision. PhD students need a lot of time through either direct contact hours, reading and editing their work, and admin and paperwork. That’s not to mention undergraduate and Masters level supervision, of which each lecture will probably have 3-5 students plus.

      Then there’s research which can easily take 20+ hours a week. Apart from actually writing papers, there’s data analysis, survey design, submitting the paper to journals and responding to reviewer queries. On top of that there’s grant writing, meetings with collaborators, and presenting in seminars and conferences. And then even further you need to make sure you’re reading all the latest publications in your area, or reading through 20-30 papers at least for a literature review for your own paper.

    19. cyberlexington on

      Ok, let’s take a moment here. Because most lecturers don’t just lecture.

      Outside of other student stuff like tutoring mentoring etc, they also do research/papers/peer reviews etc.

      Unless she got very lucky it’s a lot more than one two hour lecture a week and the rest she’s on Reddit.

    20. Willing-Departure115 on

      Tenured academics are bulletproof. University plus public sector job protections for life. UCD couldn’t do anything about that covid denying public health professor till she decided to go and retire (on full pension) by herself.

      Any attempt to change this would meet with public sector unions howling on one side and cries of academic independence from the other.

    21. that_gu9_ on

      I’ve no idea about her, but some lecturers get large research grants that effectively buy themselves out of teaching to focus on their research. SFI, EU grants etc. The job of a lot of lecturers isn’t to lecture but to research and publish.

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