With a third of academics employed on fixed-term contracts (I'd guess this figure is a lot higher for research-only staff) and with the current scarcity of permanent lecturing positions, those of us wanting to stay in academia have little choice but to go from one research contract to another.
Your disillusionment is not unusual as a recent Guardian article makes clear--as many as a third of academics want to quit.
Yet the appetite for research grew to a third of budgeted academic time, and was met.
According to the latest data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa), more than a third of the academic workforce is now on temporary, fixed-term contracts.
Craig Gotsman, a Technion computer science professor with two start-ups under his belt, will direct the institute, which will ultimately be responsible for a third of the academic activity on campus.
By 2010, about a third of all academic staff will have reached retirement age.
Our survey found that about two-thirds of female academic leaders feel unhappy with their work-life balance, compared with about a third of male academics.
Ms. Wittmer's fan list illuminates her identity: about a third of the subjects are academic (Shelley, Whitman, Dickinson), but she also likes Jello Biafra and giraffes.
According to a new study, nearly a third of states lowered their academic standards between 2005 and 2007.
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), says that secure jobs are increasingly hard to come by: "More than a third of the UK's total academic workforce is now on temporary, fixed-term contracts as are two-thirds of our research base.
