Finland considering giving every citizen €800 a month

platypus said:
Yes it's a crying shame that a fortuitous change in your circumstances have led to you having to pay back the system you brag about abusing. And continue to brag about having done so.

The horse? You still ride it.
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I love my horse. It goes everywhere with me.

And it's not fortuitous, there was no chance involved - the opportunity arose because I made it happen through hard work.
 
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why are you being offered a 'senior' lecturer position while as an undergrad?

surely you'd have a PhD and then a few post doc positions to get through first?
 
dowie said:
why are you being offered a 'senior' lecturer position while as an undergrad?
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There's no way I can answer that without you accusing me of arrogance.
 
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putting you on a scholarship? You mean you're getting funded like most PhD students? And having you appointed as a lecturer in your third year?

sounds pretty dubious - I'm assuming this is some form of ex poly and a vocational course rather than a serious research university
 
I can hear the chicken counting from here.

Essentially you are still a student and you hope for the above roles. Unless you signed something nothing is guaranteed (even then what you have been offered is all conditional) and considering the position you are in now, you haven't had the chance of doing any hard work as an undergrad :D

I doubt half his glorified bragging. Not because it is anything special but rather that few would include an undergrad in their plans for employment past PHD. How does anyone know how long your PHD will take?

dowie said:
sounds pretty dubious - I'm assuming this is some form of ex poly and a vocational course rather than a serious research university
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Possibly. I did my time as a researcher and this doesn't line up with any of my experiences.
 
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Avenged7Fold said:
Not because it is anything special but rather that few would include an undergrad in their plans for employment past PHD. How does anyone know how long your PHD will take?
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PhD's in the UK usually take a fairly fixed period of time. Mine will take exactly four years.
 
Tefal said:
says the man willfully draining money out of a system designed to help the young and struggling better themselves knowing hell never pay it back into the pot and thus helping show the scheme to be a waste of money and should be scrapped/made harsher for the people who really need it?
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What scheme exactly are you talking about here?
 
Mr Jack said:
What scheme exactly are you talking about here?
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He's grumpy that I retired then decided to do a degree and utilise the Student Loans system to pay for the fees.

Obviously, as I was intending to stay retired (that's changed now), I wouldn't have paid the student loan back and he's all butt hurt about it.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Lancaster.
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this all sounds very fishy - you're not even a third year undergrad student yet are claiming to have been offered a position as a 'senior' lecturer after a PhD you haven't even started and will also start teaching during your third year

while I'm sure some third year students and masters students assist with tutorials etc.. the idea of you being a lecturer while a third year and/or jumping straight into a 'senior' lecturer role immediately after PhD sounds very suspicious
 
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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