multiple lines in UCL, LSE, Durham, Nottingham... wonder what's the catch
UK hires like crazy
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It’s the impact of new government policies, allowing successful and rich institutions to grow, gobbling up students from lower-ranked departments. The cap that once existed on the size of these universities has been lifted. Now they have every incentive to bring in more profit-making cheap-to-teach social science students, to help pay for expensive prestige-inducing research in the sciences and medicine
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This is correct. Most Russel Group universities will grow because of the cap being lifted and the A-level fiasco of last year.
It’s the impact of new government policies, allowing successful and rich institutions to grow, gobbling up students from lower-ranked departments. The cap that once existed on the size of these universities has been lifted. Now they have every incentive to bring in more profit-making cheap-to-teach social science students, to help pay for expensive prestige-inducing research in the sciences and medicine
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It’s the impact of new government policies, allowing successful and rich institutions to grow, gobbling up students from lower-ranked departments. The cap that once existed on the size of these universities has been lifted. Now they have every incentive to bring in more profit-making cheap-to-teach social science students, to help pay for expensive prestige-inducing research in the sciences and medicine
Are the sciences and medicine prestige-inducing? E.g., when I think about France, the only prestigious modern institution seems to be Sciences Po. Russian universities are good at the sciences and better at maths, but no one gives a cr4p about them. LSE is significantly more famous than Imperial.
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^ this just means that you don't know much about France or any other field outside political science. Sorbonne and Saclay top the ranking in mathematics and fields medals. PSE and TSE are strong Econ departments. Poliytecnique alumni have the highest earnings in Europe. Just to name a few.
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Future of UK academia = The Office. Cubicles, publication and teaching targets, HR running the show, etc.
Mind you, it's still a job I'd prefer over 90% of professional paths that would be realistic for me. But if you're not at the top of the food chain in the UK, you feel it quickly.
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I would so love to get out of the states and go take a job in the U.K.
Outside of the top-tier programs though, they don't seem to keen on hiring from abroad.
Is that the sense others get?Those fawning rubes who accepted at Edinburgh will soon be sorely disappointed. And the new guy at Glasgow is worse than p@thetic.
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Not all. Faculty in the UK tends to be very international. The main problem is that the job market and the signalling game works differently, so it's hard to learn the rules if you don't do your PhD in the UK.
I would so love to get out of the states and go take a job in the U.K.
Outside of the top-tier programs though, they don't seem to keen on hiring from abroad.
Is that the sense others get? -
Not all. Faculty in the UK tends to be very international. The main problem is that the job market and the signalling game works differently, so it's hard to learn the rules if you don't do your PhD in the UK.
I would so love to get out of the states and go take a job in the U.K.
Outside of the top-tier programs though, they don't seem to keen on hiring from abroad.
Is that the sense others get?That's my experience as well. Outside of the very top, places will always ask whether the candidate is credible or not. Find ways to signal it, if you can.
This being said, places outside the top tier are those that are struggling right now because of what Chief said above. They are facing risks of under-enrollment and high covid-related expenses.