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Originally Posted by Finbar10  Not sure about the tenure distinction. I guess one is either temporary or permanent as a lecturer. |
Perhaps in the past; these days all are on short-term contracts.
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One cannot be strung along on temporary contracts forever.
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No. Just for a decade or three...
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I would guess being permanent in an Irish university is effectively "tenure".
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No, tenure is quite different and has genuine reasons for existing (namely that it has been found that the most productive lines of research have no initial financial incentives to pursue them so those who demonstrate ability in research were granted independence from worrying about bean counting. Hence, tenure.
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Also don't think comparing to salaries for the IT bubble is realistic. Can't allow that to skew everything. That's only a small fraction of university staff. I'd wonder anyway if salary levels in that field anything near as generous these days?
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Well, the salary range for mid-to-senior level developers is about the same as for lecturers in that document just posted, so I'd say yes.
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70/80,000 as some kind of line manager in a multinational perhaps is realistic.
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75k as a senior developer is rather low. I think maybe you need a better analogy.
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But there are very few of these positions.
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Do people think there are entire swarms of professors in colleges or something?