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?
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