Mr. Edy Suandi, a former chairman of the Rectors' Forum of Indonesia, which includes leaders of private and public universities, and chairman of the Cooperation Agency of Islamic Private Universities, said many of the university's students left their homes across Indonesia to come to Yogyakarta in search of a university with good facilities and qualified lecturers.
This is partly because of insufficient infrastructure but, critically, also because of the absence of suitably qualified lecturers and academic mentors.
Butterworth's father, a former truck driver who, after winning a trade-union scholarship to Ruskin College in Oxford, qualified as a lecturer in industrial relations and economics, met Butterworth's mother after coming round to fix her gutter.
Is your lecturer qualified?
"In subjects with a low rate of female students such as physics, women who have qualified as a university lecturer have at least the same or even better chances to be appointed as their male colleagues".
Now: qualified solicitor and prospective law lecturer, Ribble Valley, Lancashire.
"This year we have a computer scientist, a chemist as well as several students who are medically qualified," says Dr Deborah Clarke, course lecturer of the graduate programme in neuroscience.
In China, university graduates with master degrees are qualified for the promotion to Lecturer usually after a minimum of 2-year working experiences.
But their numbers drop rapidly as they move up the academic ladder: Less than 16% of postdocs who qualify as university lecturers are female, and only 5.5% of full-tenure positions in universities are held by women.
Dalgarno said Wright was qualified to write for The Conversation because he was an adjunct lecturer at Charles Sturt University.
