I meant that university-teaching and school-teaching to me seem jobs which should have similar status and so on and ought to be paid about the same. I suspect that when she moved they *were* similarly paid, and it is in the intervening years that the gap has grown.
Of course just because the average pay is 35K doesn't mean most academics are necessarily earning that much. At the moment it looks like lecturers in Cambridge start on about 25K, and of course researching postdocs go down much lower - the academic pay scale starts at around 14.5K.
The thing that makes me angry is that there's all this extra money coming in, some of which was apparently promised to go into pay, and the employers association isn't willing to even talk about it until the end of nextthe month. Especially when low pay was one of the reasons the universities gave for needing top-up fees in the first place. And I still can't believe they put out a press release which was so far wrong in its claims on average salary either!
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Date: 2006-03-08 04:06 pm (UTC)Of course just because the average pay is 35K doesn't mean most academics are necessarily earning that much. At the moment it looks like lecturers in Cambridge start on about 25K, and of course researching postdocs go down much lower - the academic pay scale starts at around 14.5K.
The thing that makes me angry is that there's all this extra money coming in, some of which was apparently promised to go into pay, and the employers association isn't willing to even talk about it until the end of
nextthe month. Especially when low pay was one of the reasons the universities gave for needing top-up fees in the first place. And I still can't believe they put out a press release which was so far wrong in its claims on average salary either!