Uni teaching, always such a joy. FWIW you're spending about the right amount of time in prep work.
However, I would not trust Exeter Uni very much to honour their side of any verbal agreement. My only experience with them was not a good one. I was appointed to what they had advertised as a 'permanent post' which turned out to be a 1 year fixed term non-renewable jobbie when the contract arrived. The salary agreed verbally and the salary offered in the letter diverged somewhat. The proposed teaching load was doubled when it transpired that they had decided to give another member of staff a sabbattical on the assumption that I could also cover their teaching in a completely different area I did not know.
I queried all of these with the Head of Department, whose view was 'Yeah, we lied, but you've committed to come so so tough'. She wasn't very bright, and didn't understand what 'I've decided in light of your proposed changes to our agreement not to sign the contract and to continue with my higher paid fixed-term contract elsewhere.' It was quite funny to see some of the emails she sent to my boss at Newcastle complaining that I'd broken my contract with the Uni.
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Date: 2010-01-25 12:37 pm (UTC)However, I would not trust Exeter Uni very much to honour their side of any verbal agreement. My only experience with them was not a good one. I was appointed to what they had advertised as a 'permanent post' which turned out to be a 1 year fixed term non-renewable jobbie when the contract arrived. The salary agreed verbally and the salary offered in the letter diverged somewhat. The proposed teaching load was doubled when it transpired that they had decided to give another member of staff a sabbattical on the assumption that I could also cover their teaching in a completely different area I did not know.
I queried all of these with the Head of Department, whose view was 'Yeah, we lied, but you've committed to come so so tough'. She wasn't very bright, and didn't understand what 'I've decided in light of your proposed changes to our agreement not to sign the contract and to continue with my higher paid fixed-term contract elsewhere.' It was quite funny to see some of the emails she sent to my boss at Newcastle complaining that I'd broken my contract with the Uni.