| Author: | Barrett, L. Barrett, P. |
| Title: | Current practice in the allocation of academic workloads |
| Journal: | Higher education quarterly
2007 : OCT, VOL. 61:4, p. 461-478 |
| Index terms: | higher education universities employees work allocation United Kingdom |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Significant factors within the U.K. higher education include explicit competition, regulatory demands etc. to maintain student numbers in spite of tuition fee increases. Universities have responded by more actively managing finances and quality but apparently not staff time. Based on 59 detailed interviews from a cross section of staff, this paper presents findings on the processes and practices as to academic workload allocation (WLA) in universities. There is found a great variety of different practices surrounding WLA with a lot of improvement potential. The approaches observed can be seen to work in a continuum from informal to partial. Although many felt the disciplinary context to be very important to the chosen process, the findings show that this is not the case. |
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