"Temporary is when there is a fixed term," Pierre Encreve, a culture ministry official, explained.
The NETI appointment type is a fixed term contract for the duration of one (1) year, with a possible extension of a second (2nd) year.
William Hague, the foreign secretary, defended the move on BBC Radio 4's The World at One: "Once you agree that there should be a fixed-term parliament, it is only fixed-term if there is some provision to really give it credibility to make it hard to dissolve parliament, other than exceptional circumstances, part way through its five-year term.
When, after eight years, I obtained a job in heritage, which was low-paid but at national level, it was a fixed-term contract: three years later, at 40, I was again unemployed.
However, this is a fixed-term account – you can choose from one, three or five years – so you will only have access to the money when the account matures.
He leaves the role in November after five years ("I always say, it's better to be asked why you're leaving, rather than when you're leaving," he says in a jolly, irrelevant way, since it's a fixed-term post and nobody would ask him anyway).
A few years ago, he said, he relinquished future royalties from his later songs to a third party for a $2 million payment in what he thought was a fixed-term licensing agreement but which turned out to be an outright sale; he invested that money in a recording studio project that has since failed.
What is most common is a fixed-term sentence, from which they would be released halfway through, or an indeterminate sentence, with a recommended tariff at the end of which they will only be released, on lifelong licence, with the approval of the Parole Board.
But this was a fixed-term lectureship.
The Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D ., in contrast, is a fixed-term professional degree with no research component.
