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[artifish]

Hi Perhaps someone can assist me. I have just been offered a Senior Lecturer position in a new university in the UK I have worked in Higher Education for over twenty years 5 of which in where in Ireland where I had the equivalent of a Senior Lecturer position.  I subsequently worked in Scandinavian country in FE for three and a half years and as a research fellow for a year.  I am also a PhD (which was not an absolute requirement of the job I am currently being offered  £34,745 (per annum, pro rata) which is point 35 on TSR4 scale. My hunch is that this is the bottom of the Senior Lecturer Scale.  Can anyone enlighten me as to my entitlements or point me to where I might find out. I have only worked in the UK system a year.  Many thanks in advance.

 

[wegie]

Senior lecturer at a new university is not necessarily the same as SL at a pre-92 or in Ireland. At most of the new universities, Principal Lecturer is the equivalent grade to SL at a pre-92 and Senior Lecturer is the equivalent to the Lecturer B scale.

[artifish]

Thanks for that that's useful ;) I just want to know where I should be on the scale and it is difficult if you don't know the system i figure that 5 years service experience plus the other experience over 25 years in all, (not sure if a PhD is counted) should mean more than the bottom of the senior lecturer scale if that is what it is (see above). I have had some experience of having the wool pulled over my eyes before and to quote George Bush "fool me once shame on me ..." well maybe a bad example ;)

[scotia]

The spine point you are quoting is at the top end of the Lecturer A scale in my pre-92 university.  Lecturer B starts a bit higher (this varies from university to university). As wegie says, the SL scale for the post-92s is roughly equivalent to the Lecturer B scale in pre-92s.

[artifish]

Thanks for that Scotia, so as I suspect it is either at the bottom or even below the bottom of Lecturer B scale which as you have both indicated the equivalent of Senior Lecturer in my post 92 university.