Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Voting for those who work with the unwanted work

I work at a university and I would really like to bring out those people who work year after year with one of the heaviest loads of all: teaching the basic courses for all students! This means that they have to examine at least 200 students that are more or less uninterested in the subject as it is mandatory. And this results of course in a situation where the poor teacher has to use all the charm in the world to try to motivate the unmotivated...I suggest that lecturers, THE workers of the academia, should get some special reward every year they have coped with the heavy workload. Today we are mostly admiring and rewarding those who write in top ranked journals, something a lecturer can only dream about.