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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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
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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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The concept of going up for tenure doesn't exist.
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But I'm no expert. Maybe start here? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecturer
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