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#1 Submitted by eileen.... on February 23, 2021 - 9:20am

That’s an interesting statistic: 58% of academics who had achieved promotion or a permanent contract felt that promotion or progression routes were fair as opposed to 37% of those who had not achieved promotion or progression. This is the trouble - everything seems rosy from the top.

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