A spokeswoman for the university says: "Our associate lecturer contracts are not like those reported in the current debate, where work is offered at short notice on a week-by-week basis.
Provisions were also made for nontenure track "contract lecturers," a category which included all foreign language teachers.
Tell Greg this and he nods: "I had more rights as a litter-picker than I had as a lecturer on fixed contracts.
Under the existing contract, lecturers receive no evaluation until the sixth year, when university officials decide whether to place them on "continuing appointment," a designation that offers more job security.
Elisabeth Demand – 32 years old, no-fixed-hours casual contract junior lecturer at a university in London, living the dream, her mother says, and she is, if the dream means having no job security and almost everything being too expensive to do … has gone to the main Post Office in the town nearest the village her mother now lives in.
In 1989, the European Court of Justice ruled that Italian laws restricting foreign lecturers to annual contracts, and denying them health insurance and pension benefits, was a violation of the Treaty of Rome.
Lecturers work under contracts from three months to longer periods, with average annual earnings between $50,000 and $100,000, he said.
"I was delighted to have been invited to accept the post of chancellor at Heriot-Watt and will bring to the position the experience of 36 years of university life, from being an undergraduate to a doctoral student, from research worker on short-term contract through to lecturer and then professor," said Lady Greenfield.
By early 2014, he was not just on but at the top of the tenure track, appointed full professor at the University of New Hampshire, where he had worked as a full-time lecturer in a nontenure-track contract position with benefits, since 1999.
At his office, he was reportedly met by a university-appointed public safety officer who informed him that his contract as longtime lecturer would not be renewed.
