Devoting more than 50 hours a week at my job as a teacher and researcher, I was sickened to read a detailed article in the World Saturday, October 13, 2007, entitled
University Reform: The teachers in primary that lecturers work " about 6 hours per week per week for 32 weeks
" (I'll let you in passing appreciate the "Weekly per week). a ticket that reflects very well the back of my mind and probably most of my colleagues. Here's an excerpt: [...] In fact, an academic way too much work. He has three jobs, teacher, administrator and researcher. Suffice to say that it is not 35 hours or to 40, or 50. Give a quick idea of the variety of tasks : Ongoing. Preparation courses. Examinations. Correction of copies (per hundred). Executive briefs and arguments. Readings of these memories (in the humanities, a PhD is between 300 and 1000 pages). Reports. Thesis. Examination boards. Receiving and tracking students. Development of educational models. Cooptation Assessment and colleagues (files, reports, meetings). Directorate of the year, department, UFR appropriate. Meetings of these bodies. Faculty councils, science councils, CEVU meetings, reports and meetings of the CNU and CNRS, entertainment and meeting centers and research laboratories, and a quantity tips, institutes and various widgets. And research. During leisure, if any remain. There is virtually infinite countless readings, writing papers, books, reports, management reviews, collections, conferences, symposiums in France and abroad. What a bunch of lazy, yes. Some look a little less than others, and one wonders? Greater control over the shirker is an excellent idea. There is another hypothesis: what if, for a change, we did not care about peace to the researchers, is that they would not seek more? For decades, the furious pace of reforms multiplies their tasks. After which they are accused of not seeking enough. It is the fact that they continue to do so, despite successive ministers and their good ideas, despite the indignities and obstacles of all kinds, which we should be surprising.
Nicolas Sarkozy, in his speech of January 22, speaks of research as "poor" in France. She is so poor that the French scientific publications are ranked 5th in world, while France ranks 18th in funding for research. Under these conditions, French researchers are heroes. [...]
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