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THE University of Guyana (UG) Administration is, currently, examining how to rationalise and get more value for money, by asking full time lecturers to perform teaching duties for at least 18 hours per week.
This is according to UG Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jacob Opadeyi, who was, at the time, speaking to members of the media at a Tuesday press conference in the Education Lecture Theatre (ELT) at the Turkeyen Campus.
“It’s a suggestion; it is not yet a policy but it has to come,” Opadeyi asserted.
He said they cannot have a full time lecturer teaching one course in a semester and receiving 12 months’ salary, since “it doesn’t look good in the eye and all of us know that.”
Pointing out that an average worker in Guyana works 40 hours per week; Opadeyi related that, while there is no pronouncement on how many teaching hours a lecturer presently works, the contract says that lecturers are required to teach for at least 360 hours in a year.
He said, with that practice, once a lecturer meets those 360 hours, the individual is not going to do anything else because he/she is required to do “at least” this number and, as the Vice-Chancellor, he cannot be comfortable with that since he must look for ways in which he can get more value for money.
Opadeyi indicated that the University’s biggest expenditure is salaries and entitlements and, now, they are paying $120M in salaries every month and it is always increasing while the productivity is not.
This is according to UG Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jacob Opadeyi, who was, at the time, speaking to members of the media at a Tuesday press conference in the Education Lecture Theatre (ELT) at the Turkeyen Campus.
“It’s a suggestion; it is not yet a policy but it has to come,” Opadeyi asserted.
He said they cannot have a full time lecturer teaching one course in a semester and receiving 12 months’ salary, since “it doesn’t look good in the eye and all of us know that.”
Pointing out that an average worker in Guyana works 40 hours per week; Opadeyi related that, while there is no pronouncement on how many teaching hours a lecturer presently works, the contract says that lecturers are required to teach for at least 360 hours in a year.
He said, with that practice, once a lecturer meets those 360 hours, the individual is not going to do anything else because he/she is required to do “at least” this number and, as the Vice-Chancellor, he cannot be comfortable with that since he must look for ways in which he can get more value for money.
Opadeyi indicated that the University’s biggest expenditure is salaries and entitlements and, now, they are paying $120M in salaries every month and it is always increasing while the productivity is not.
