Higher education needs more portfolio academics

With academics feeling the strain from higher workloads, the days when scholars had time to write novels or run businesses seem increasingly distant. Lincoln Allison suggests that universities have far more to gain than to lose by allowing their academics to broaden their experience and earn extra income

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December 7, 2023
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#1 Submitted by khadimir on December 8, 2023 - 4:05pm
I would presume that part-time university employment in the UK must be different than in the U.S. to see the phrase "I take it that there is little disagreement that part-time university employment is good for everybody and likely to increase." Were that said in the states, expect an angry mob at your door as part-time employment is astoundingly exploitative and uses loopholes to dodge minimum wage laws.

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