GOGSoc Episode V: The GOG Strikes Back

personal life is going to trump career if/when it comes to that. I don't think I'll be cut out for an academic career anyway

Tbh, I don't think I have it in me to make a world-class researcher. Well not without hugely jeapordising my health. Part-time teaching somewhere with decent students could be fun for me though, even if it hasn't got much prestige.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/postgraduate-students-are-being-used-as-slave-labour-7791509.html Not sure what I think of this.

It doesn't surprise me and is only going to get worse. Had an email the other day (through a mailing list) about a PhD fees bursary. The catch was fees were paid for 3 years IF you taught x amount of hours per week.

Which also asks the question of should first year PhD students be teaching?

It doesn't surprise me and is only going to get worse. Had an email the other day (through a mailing list) about a PhD fees bursary. The catch was fees were paid for 3 years IF you taught x amount of hours per week.

Which also asks the question of should first year PhD students be teaching?

tbh I don't think it's unfair to exchange a studentship with certain hours of teaching. I think it's better than not giving the studentship at all and as the situation is getting worse and worse with funding, better to give the studentships and ask for some hours in return than not give it at all.

I personally would like to teach from my first year. I know its time consuming but it's also very important for gaining experience.

I, for one, would be a terrible teacher. I would basically be Dr Cox mixed with with...Ned Flanders.

Ah sorry if I confused you. When I said "I wonder if part-time work would be any better?" or whatever I said, I meant in terms of cattiness/backstabbing-ness. Not so much inequalities and barriers. That, part-time obviously makes worse, rather than helps with

I remember when you were trying to teach me anc Greek participle phrases a few years back. It did not go well. I recall phrases like "retard" and "I'm going to strangle you, you worthless idiot" "what do you think is stronger, this heavy dictionary or the back of your skull?" being thrown around. I don't think Cambridge will appreciate your style.




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I don't think there's anything wrong with postgrads teaching - lecturing skills take time to acquire and hone. And significant teaching experience is as necessary as a good research profile in getting many academic jobs, depending of course on the university and subject.

I don't think there's anything wrong with postgrads teaching - lecturing skills take time to acquire and hone. And significant teaching experience is as necessary as a good research profile in getting many academic jobs, depending of course on the university and subject.

It doesn't surprise me and is only going to get worse. Had an email the other day (through a mailing list) about a PhD fees bursary. The catch was fees were paid for 3 years IF you taught x amount of hours per week.

Which also asks the question of should first year PhD students be teaching?

Lol here at Ox first year DPhil and second year MPhil students can teach, providing they've spent some time at the uni before (e.g transitioning onto the DPhil from being an MSt here, the MPhil is 2 years etc). This is a bit scary, I've met the kinds of students we have here. They're not very bright, if I was taught by them I'd get pissed off. This is the Classics dept obviously.

Seriously though, I like some of these people but they just don't have enough knowledge to be imparting anything on a professional level. I think in general the dept here is quite willy nilly with a lot of stuff like that though. To be fair if I was a tenured academic I probably wouldn't give a crap about anything, ever.

I, for one, would be a terrible teacher. I would basically be Dr Cox mixed with with...Ned Flanders.

Oooh!

Do I have to have watched the contest this year? I haven't watched it since I left home for Oxford

In terms of Oxbridge I think they should only let students who have been undergraduates there teach straight away. The rest definitely need a lot of training. Because the worst PhD supervisors I had were ones who had completely inappropriate expectations because they didn't know the first thing about the supervision/tutorial system and how it worked.

that's a very good way of prolonging the disadvantageous position of people who didn't do their undergrad there. Define inappropriate expectations. I would assume that PhD students are told what to expect and what to request from their students at tutorials. I think if PhD students don't know how the tutorial system works this is because the department did not bother having one or two sessions to explain it to them.

that's a very good way of prolonging the disadvantageous position of people who didn't do their undergrad there. Define inappropriate expectations. I would assume that PhD students are told what to expect and what to request from their students at tutorials. I think if PhD students don't know how the tutorial system works this is because the department did not bother having one or two sessions to explain it to them.