Wednesday, July 15, 2009

University Lecturer...

I was browsing the wikipedia to understand the meaning of a university lecturer. In universities, lecturers sometime "declare" themselves as being a "teaching lecturer" or a "lecturer-Researcher". Interestingly, in its simplest form, wikipedia gives the following definition: "Lecturer is a term of academic rank. It is the name given to those who teach in their first permanent university position. Lecturers are academics early in their careers, who lead research groups and supervise postgraduate students as well as lecture courses.". As such, we as university lecturers can't really differentiate between teaching and researching can we?. We have to do them both... :O)