Class allocation in the academia; are we doing it the wrong way?

I've been working in a handful of universities for a number of years and in all of them, I've noticed one thing very common; that is, that the allocation of classes are done giving the Lecturers the most teaching hours and the Professors the least. 

I've always wondered, and in the end, inquired about it, only to be informed that the Professors, who without exception have PhDs and scores of research papers to their name, need more time to 'research', hence are left in peace and with less number of teaching commitments, whereas lecturers who require as a condition of the job to research and publish articles in order to be promoted, are given full load of classes.  

If this is not a complete and erroneous swap of responsibilities, then what is I am unaware. 

Any comments on this?

Life of a university lecturer

As we all know, a lecturer is expected to do research in his field. It's not like any other profession where you just carry out your duties in office and the rest of the time is to yourself. If you work in the university, you have to indulge yourself into research and it is expected that research be one of your main profession.

So it's not a job of a university lecturer to lecture in classrooms and come back home having the entire evening to himself. He is supposed to do research to further his discipline.

A lecturer generally takes 16 to 20 hours a week teaching, along with the preparation needed to teach. On top of that he goes through the entire process of researching. Needless to say, he also has to take care of his persona, social, familial and spiritual lives. So, in short he's bogged down, with commitments.

On the other hand, a professor, having ideally completed his PhD and researches, has more free time as he has less teaching hours. He's at the fag end of his career and life. He has few new things to offer.  

What to do with loads of pseudo scholars in English?

I know the title sounds presumptuous, but lately, I am beset with this biting thought.

Our academia is full of 'professionals' who got up one fine morning and decided that they would become English teachers. They get a certificate (they call it a 'license') to teach English from one of the many hundred thousand universities that are ready to provide such, and ready they are -- to teach English. Often, they are 'native' speakers of English which gives them an undocumented acceptance as wonderful 'users' of English. And it is assumed in the next moment that since they can 'use' the language being a native, they must be able to 'teach' it too.

So we have such teachers in classrooms who mess up everyday. Another equally alarming situation is with some universities issuing Master's degree and Ph.Ds wholesale just to equip their students get jobs in the market. They are chiefly from India, I have noticed.

Indian universities mass produce higher degrees and these 'degree holders' hurry overseas to grab teaching positions. One of their popular choices has been the Middle east. We have Doctors in English, who, and that is not a tinge of overstatement, can't produce verbally or in writing a single sentence in English, and are employed in higher positions. Of course, 'scholars' in the Middle east most often fail to judge the actual merit of their recruits being primarily dazzled by their 400 page theses, which is, needless to say, just a careful work of copy and paste.

Such graduates and employees, being shockingly below the salt of many, recklessly try to 'publish' articles (!) too, to cement their positions in the Department. To that end, they often display boldness and audacity to the extent of being foolhardy, and opt for a new 'international' 'journal', with no accreditation or citation records, and then friends just get together and publish bullshits with concocted data.

The objective of this write-up is not to scandalize graduates of any particular country or demean the profession of English language teaching. This is an account fully observed and experienced first hand.

Now, what to do with such 'professional' teachers (or is it 'cheaters'?)? This is probably none of anyone's business if any organization willingly employs such individuals. But the problem arises when these disturbing 'elements' unite and, out of jealousy and inferiority-complex', try to corner the good, sober and learned faculty members (not necessarily like me)

The native speakers and degree holders from 'reputed'(!) universities are worsening the teaching scenarios of today. And there seems to be no way out of this situation.