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Zero Hours; Zero Feedback?
Zero Hours; Zero Feedback?
Date : 05/05/2021
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Uploaded by : Bruce
Uploaded on : 05/05/2021
Subject : Accounting
Zero Hours; Zero Feedback?You apply for a Visiting Lecturer (VL) position at a local university. You hear nothing further. Six months later you re-apply. This time they call you.After a brief interview and giving a presentation, you start teaching in early January, continueing until mid April.Each week, you prepare by sourcing, devising and posting suitable learning materials, as little existing is useable, to the virtual learning environment (vle).You do everything you are asked to - you teach all classes per timetable for 12 weeks starting 9am (although half the students don`t show up each week).You also attend `standardisation` meetings each week in your lunchbreak, held in a public area.You devise and set a mock mid-term (unasked) - as you`re aiming to improve student understanding and their results& you mark it and give personal feedback to those who come.Later you mark the mid-term and give similar personal feedback to those who sat it and attended.For exam revision, you`re asked to prepare five multiple choice questions across three exam topics, post them and work through in classes.You do so willingly.You`re told you won`t be required to mark the final exam, but no reason is given. Consequently you receive no payment for any of the marking and feedback you`ve done/given whatsoever.You get zero feedback on module final & results (tmm) and also no notification or feedback on the student survey results for the survey you conducted in your classes, even though you ask repeatedly for some feedback, any feedback, none whatever is provided.They pre-advise there won`t be any work in the Summer term, due to reduced numbers. You understand.Your IT account is disabled without notification and when queried this is explained as, `normal practice`.Then, in July you see an ad on jobs.ac.uk for exactly what you did from January to April, starting again in September.YOUR CONCLUSION ???
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