subject: University Teacher Salary Evolving With The Times [print this page] University Teacher Salary Evolving With The Times
Teachers exist in all sorts of settings ranging from kindergartens to elementary and high schools advancing to tertiary levels. Most times, they are referred to as professors if they hold a doctorate degree to a specific discipline and conduct teaching as well as research activities. Due to higher standing commonly attached to the more extensive list of qualifications, a university teacher salary will differ from that of a lower level of academia within the context of schools and colleges. This is however not to spelt in concrete that one is better than the other.
As educators of the more junior population serve to build and form strong foundations of education, those at the tertiary levels have a different set of goals to accomplish. Assuming one is sufficiently equipped with the three R's of Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic, the first hurdle towards producing a learned individual is closer to the finishing tape. Upon continuing one's journey for tertiary instruction, many enter the lion's den without a notion of what is in store. Although some professors may exhibit certain tendencies to roar at their charges in order to scare the living daylights into or out of them, most usually want to educate rather than intimidate. With the constant push for education to enter and embrace the new era of technology, they also strive to keep up with the times to deliver e-learning and newer modes for impartation and absorption of information whilst adding doctorate degrees to their growing list of academic accomplishments.
Sad but true, education is gaining fast ground on becoming a business. As bottom lines and revenue markers are closely watched by its executive levels, there may come a time when a university teacher salary is dependent on deliverables such as passes and failures. If such a measurement is ever realized, this may give cause for one's judgment to totter between prized and priced education.
