For better terms, casualised academics must follow support staff’s lead

"British universities have, over the past 20 years, steadily dumped as much teaching as possible on academics working on a variety of short-term and casual contracts." In my direct experience some have gone much further, employing a few 'academics' on very part-time casual contracts, with the aforesaid academics working in multiple Universities just to make ends meet. Which means the paying undergrad 'customers' have extremely limited access and contact time. Add to that using technical staff to deliver courses, who though they have to construct the courses they deliver cannot claim they are 'teaching', as an aside some of my technical team are qualified as teachers unlike most career academics whose pedagogical training and delivery can be poor at best, as they are not 'academics'. Thus the Universities 'teach' greater numbers for greater profits as the actual costs of delivery are much lower.