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mep3 · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 212

I've read a couple people mention that in certain cities in Mexico, most of the university work is part-time and/or doesn't pay enough to live on. Generally speaking, in Mexico, are full-time university jobs hard to come by for people with good qualifications? Thanks .... Mep

MELEE · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

It depends. Razz

Mostly on where you are looking and what universities you are looking at. I work in the SUNEO system (Sistema de Universidades Estatales de Oaxaca) where 100% the professors are full time. But that is because the system is based on a model that is a reaction to the typical university situation in Mexico. Some may say the pendulum has sung too far in the opposite direction in many respects, but at least in terms of job benefits its a good thing!

I recently met a teacher at the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara Campus, she told me that in the Language Center they have 5 full-time teachers and 25 part-time teachers! Shocked

We have 15 full-timers and only about 1/4 of the number of students that they do.

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

The EFL department where I teach maintains between 15 and 18 teachers. About 4 of them have full-time tenured contracts. There hasn't been a tenured contract offered to anyone in our department since before I started working there, and I've been there 10 years. Nobody could handle a full-time non-tenured contract, because it would mean teaching about 40 hours of classes per week and keeping up with all the other work that goes with it besides. Full-time tenured teachers, on the other hand, teach no more than a third of the hours they're contracted for at most.