Finland considering giving every citizen €800 a month

amigafan2003 said:
He's grumpy that I retired then decided to do a degree and utilise the Student Loans system to pay for the fees.
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What the scheme that's explicitly available to retired individuals? That scheme. Jeze, some people will get stroppy about the funniest things.
 
you're not sure why I'd be confused at someone still studying for their undergrad to be appointed as a lecturer and be given a contract for some senior lecturer job for when they finish a PhD they haven't even started yet? How about the fact it is very unusual and just doesn't seem to make any sense regardless of how gifted you are as a student.
 
fair enough I won't derail the thread further - I was just curious as it sounded very very unusual... still good luck with the PhD, tis nice to have a tenured position lined up for when you finish it
 
dowie said:
good luck with the PhD, tis nice to have a tenured position lined up for when you finish it
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Thanks :-)

We always seem to get off on a bad foot when we discuss things Dowie - I shall do my bit to try to remedy that from now on :-)
 
Defiant306 said:
Jesus can we get some Mods to clean up this thread, talk about total derailment of this thread. /sigh
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I'm ok with that if mod thinks it's appropriate.

Apologies - I got drawn in by the initial attack on me - I should know better.
 
dowie said:
ok here is a list of academic staff - everyone with the title 'lecturer' already has a PhD

http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/por...cc9-696fb49506e3)/people.html?filter=academic

yet you're going to be a 'lecturer' in your third year - in which case should we expect to see a 'Mr' whatever your name is appear on there in a year or so?

Also given these people with the job title 'lecturer' have all completed PhDs how can you be confident part way through your undergrad that you're going to be appointed to a 'senior lecturer' job immediately after your PhD, which you haven't even started, when all these other PhD holders are not yet 'senior' lecturers? Especially given that all the other senior lecturers seem to have a fair few publications under their belts going back a few years and you're still taking taught courses.
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Complete and utter BS.

There is no way they can promise a Senior Lecturer position that far in advance when they have no idea how good his phd will be and there will be dozens of other phd students completing before him and with him. Then you have the many other students completing doctorates at top universities who would then be willing to become a lecturer at a place like Lancaster.

In addition, they have no idea how an undergrad would even cope as a lecturer given the lack of teaching experience at a university.

The page you have linked to shows that many people with doctorates are still junior lecturers, if even that.

This is one of the least believable things I've come across on the internet.

At most he has been sold the idea that one day he could potentially be a senior lecturer. Which of course no one here is in a position to say he definitely can't.
 
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What do you do Moses? From your other posts it sounds like you've got experience in the sector?

Gogl said:
No way? Nepotism can refresh the positions other applicants cannot reach.
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;)

Although I think you might have been reaching for cronyism.
 
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Hiijinx said:
A nice idea which I hope works out for them. Gets rid of the whole "on benefits" stigma, one step in the right direction IMO.

Way too modern for the UK though, I could imagine work houses being brought back before anything like this.
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IDS would have to be six feet under before any of this could even be considered for this country !
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35256386

We're so paranoid about giving something to those that "don't deserve it" and spend so much money trying to ensure that doesn't happen that we don't have enough money left to give to those that do "deserve it".

The case for a universal income in the UK is getting stronger by the day.
 
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