*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Discontent and underfunding in academia Author: Mary Beard Source: Times Literary Supplement
*Date: *Dec 27, 2019 Summary: Over the past decade, the particular focus of attention has been the increasingly precarious position of young scholars at the beginning of their careers, who now commonly go through many years of temporary positions at one university after another, moving around the country for six months here, nine months there, or on very part-time contracts (I’ve recently seen an advertisement for a seventeen-week teaching post on one-fifth of full-time hours, and pay)
*Link: *http://bit.ly/2Scf7Jr
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