But Jane Thompson, UCU national official for higher education, says that while the union has no objection to visiting lecturers from industry coming in to teach two or three times a year, these sorts of contracts should not be used for bread and butter work.
The results showed that the lecturers with industry experience and those without the experience employed similar teaching methods, which were the student-centred approaches.
About 50 invited lecturers from industry and academia presented overviews on the hot topics of each of the conference's sections--from combinatorial biotech to proteomics to gene therapy.
About 60 of the lecturers were previously industry practitioners while the other 30 were without industry experience.
The Harvard students have already secured a requirement that all professors and lecturers disclose their industry ties in class — a blanket policy that has been adopted by no other leading medical school.
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Lecturer Jo Tyler, whose industry credits include spells at BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, and 6 Music, where she helped launch Jupitus's breakfast show, explains: "With the consolidation going on in commercial networks and the editorial changes at the BBC, independent community stations are emerging to provide the kind of local coverage others aren't.
"You park up your car for four days, aren't at home to use any of your electrical equipment, are living in a tent and using communal facilities," says Professor Ben Challis, a lecturer and music industry lawyer who co-founded the A Greener Festival campaign.
The outcome of the study also emphasized close collaboration between mathematics lecturers and personnel in industry as an important step toward the successful teaching of mathematics that would be relevant to industry (Council, T. A. and National Research Council 2001).
"Also, some of the lecturers are from the industry.
