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#1 Submitted by e.... on April 18, 2019 - 2:19pm

Though if Fridays were kept free from teaching, tutorials, formal meetings etc., that would give academics a guaranteed day to do research (or teaching prep, or marking or whatever)

The four-day week: will it catch on in academia?

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