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uklathemock
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 Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:45 pm Post subject: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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Hourly instructors get status promotion
By Han Sang-hee
Non-permanent instructors paid on an hourly basis at universities will see their job security strengthened and wages raised following the passage of a revised education bill at a Cabinet meeting, Tuesday.
According to the revised rule, schools are now obliged to abolish the hourly instructor system and guarantee them �teacher status,� the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said.
Tens of thousands of instructors, who have been ill-treated by most universities, have over the years demanded better treatment from the government and schools. These instructors are responsible for teaching one third of the classes at universities yet are paid lower insufficient wages and suffer unstable job security.
The contract period for part-time instructors will be extended to at least a year from the original six months, or one semester, and schools will be restricted from firing and forcing them to quit, the ministry said.
More than 94 percent of university instructors were hired under contracts lasting less than six months.
Instructors will be considered a faculty member as a change in the categorization of the teaching staff will be applied which originally listed professor, associate professor, assistant professor and full-time instructor.
Thus, when hiring an instructor, schools must treat them like any other faculty member.
The ministry has secured an 80.5 billion won ($71 million) budget and raised the hourly rate to 60,000 won this year from last year�s 42,500 won. The hourly pay for instructors working at national universities will rise in phases ― to 70,000 won in 2012 and 80,000 won in 2013. |
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Mr. Peabody
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:43 pm Post subject: Re: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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| uklathemock wrote: |
Hourly instructors get status promotion
By Han Sang-hee
Non-permanent instructors paid on an hourly basis at universities will see their job security strengthened and wages raised following the passage of a revised education bill at a Cabinet meeting, Tuesday.
According to the revised rule, schools are now obliged to abolish the hourly instructor system and guarantee them �teacher status,� the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said.
Tens of thousands of instructors, who have been ill-treated by most universities, have over the years demanded better treatment from the government and schools. These instructors are responsible for teaching one third of the classes at universities yet are paid lower insufficient wages and suffer unstable job security.
The contract period for part-time instructors will be extended to at least a year from the original six months, or one semester, and schools will be restricted from firing and forcing them to quit, the ministry said.
More than 94 percent of university instructors were hired under contracts lasting less than six months.
Instructors will be considered a faculty member as a change in the categorization of the teaching staff will be applied which originally listed professor, associate professor, assistant professor and full-time instructor.
Thus, when hiring an instructor, schools must treat them like any other faculty member.
The ministry has secured an 80.5 billion won ($71 million) budget and raised the hourly rate to 60,000 won this year from last year�s 42,500 won. The hourly pay for instructors working at national universities will rise in phases ― to 70,000 won in 2012 and 80,000 won in 2013. |
This is good news for P/T instructors. However, I don't know any P/T NET's. There probably are a few, though. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:55 am Post subject: Re: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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| Mr. Peabody wrote: |
| This is good news for P/T instructors. However, I don't know any P/T NET's. There probably are a few, though. |
Kunsan National University has an entire department of them, all on one-semester contracts, and are required to beg to keep their jobs every semester or they do not get a new contract. KNU, or more specifically the raging ego running the language department, will not like it. Course, he's unlikely to follow the law anyway. He doesn't follow most of them, so why start with this one? |
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Mr. Peabody
Joined: 24 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:07 am Post subject: Re: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| Mr. Peabody wrote: |
| This is good news for P/T instructors. However, I don't know any P/T NET's. There probably are a few, though. |
Kunsan National University has an entire department of them, all on one-semester contracts, and are required to beg to keep their jobs every semester or they do not get a new contract. KNU, or more specifically the raging ego running the language department, will not like it. Course, he's unlikely to follow the law anyway. He doesn't follow most of them, so why start with this one? |
Yikes! |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:13 am Post subject: Re: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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| Mr. Peabody wrote: |
| Yikes! |
You don't know the half of it. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:59 am Post subject: Re: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| Mr. Peabody wrote: |
| This is good news for P/T instructors. However, I don't know any P/T NET's. There probably are a few, though. |
Kunsan National University has an entire department of them, all on one-semester contracts, and are required to beg to keep their jobs every semester or they do not get a new contract. KNU, or more specifically the raging ego running the language department, will not like it. Course, he's unlikely to follow the law anyway. He doesn't follow most of them, so why start with this one? |
That national university should be shamed. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:08 am Post subject: Re: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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| Xuanzang wrote: |
| That national university should be shamed. |
Labor complaints, multi-million won pension fines, and losing lawsuits hasn't shamed them yet. I conclude they have no shame. And neither does the "head teacher" who continues to sell his soul to keep his job there year after year. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| Ha...a former university I worked at was using Koreans for PT to try to eliminate foreigners. I hope they get screwed. |
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Hyeon Een
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Nothing about them getting equivalent of tenure after a certain amount of years though?
I don't mean like a tenured professor. I mean like anyone in any company in Korea who has been there more than 2 years; at this point they can't be let go or have their contracts not renewed without reason. |
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Stan Rogers
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Hyeon Een wrote: |
Nothing about them getting equivalent of tenure after a certain amount of years though?
I don't mean like a tenured professor. I mean like anyone in any company in Korea who has been there more than 2 years; at this point they can't be let go or have their contracts not renewed without reason. |
Reasons can be made up. They don't have to be true, they just need to be agreed on my the deciding group. |
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Mr. Peabody
Joined: 24 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| Xuanzang wrote: |
| That national university should be shamed. |
Labor complaints, multi-million won pension fines, and losing lawsuits hasn't shamed them yet. I conclude they have no shame. And neither does the "head teacher" who continues to sell his soul to keep his job there year after year. |
What type of visa are these teachers on? Why would they put up with it? |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:04 pm Post subject: Re: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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| Mr. Peabody wrote: |
What type of visa are these teachers on? Why would they put up with it? |
E2 visas.
You'd have to ask why to those who stay. Most don't put up with the abuse for more than a semester and leave en masse--and in some cases, filing labor/pension claims en masse on their way out--requiring mass hirings every semester.
The place is a joke. And as it is a national university, it is also a disgrace. |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:25 pm Post subject: Re: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| Mr. Peabody wrote: |
What type of visa are these teachers on? Why would they put up with it? |
E2 visas.
You'd have to ask why to those who stay. Most don't put up with the abuse for more than a semester and leave en masse--and in some cases, filing labor/pension claims en masse on their way out--requiring mass hirings every semester.
The place is a joke. And as it is a national university, it is also a disgrace. |
I always find it interesting that some of the national universities are the worst offenders. |
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DaHu
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: Revision for university instructors affect foreigners? |
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I always find it interesting that some of the national universities are the worst offenders. |
Perhaps they feel they are "above the law" or whatever |
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