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Need a teaching qualification to lecture?

  • 14-07-2009 10:32pm
    #1
    J-Fit
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    If so which one? Thanks :)


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  • #2
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    J-Fit wrote: »
    If so which one? Thanks :)

    None at all, in theory...

    Depends on the level (IT, UNI, Private), content (undergrad/postgrad), format (tutorial, lecture series). For a formal lecturing position, a phd seems to be the norm now.

    There is a lot of contract work doing the rounds with the hiring freeze, which will probably continue for the next two years or so. Keep an eye out through your department mailing lists if they keep one.

    I'm a year off phd and getting a few modules around, now that retiring positions are not being filled/temporary contracts over 1 year not being renewed.


  • #3
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    J-Fit wrote: »
    If so which one? Thanks :)

    No, you don 't. All the information you need is in the sticky at the top of the forum, cunningly titled "How to become a lecturer". :)

    Having said that, I recently did an interview for a third-level institution that did require a teaching qualification. I think it is a good idea - we have all been there with a stiff academic who can't teach to save his/her life.


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