But often profs have just one book in them, and #tenure leads to slacking / arbitrariness. Seems like security upon hire is better.
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Does UK have expectation of indefinite employment upon hire, with "just cause" for removal? Or did it at one time?
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It's a perm position if that's what you mean. But no more or less permanent than any other job.
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On what basis can people be removed? Anything manipulable/arbitrary like teaching evals / observations (which can be maliciously cooked)?
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Depending on the uni, yes, arbitrary things, can be used to make you move on.
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Like what kind of arbitrary job stuff occurs in UK? Here they manipulate teaching evals, e.g. this
@AmericanU case. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/29/american-u-scholar-says-provost-cherry-picked-negative-student-ratings-her-teaching … -
Right, I see what you mean. It's not exactly like that, I think. But really I'm just a postdoc, you should ask profs in the UK system.
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