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.
OU associate lecturers who tutor on the maximum allowed number of courses (180 points, with no other employment) might get around 9.5K. Although the OU claim this would amount to just 18 hours work per week, pretty much all the ALs I know (including myself) spend at least double that amount of time on tutoring, in order to do the job properly. Personally, I had more spare income as a PhD student on a grant :-)
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Date: 2006-03-08 07:08 pm (UTC)OU associate lecturers who tutor on the maximum allowed number of courses (180 points, with no other employment) might get around 9.5K. Although the OU claim this would amount to just 18 hours work per week, pretty much all the ALs I know (including myself) spend at least double that amount of time on tutoring, in order to do the job properly. Personally, I had more spare income as a PhD student on a grant :-)