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[observer3]

Ok, I admit it. I am really poor and suffering from all of these cost increases with no real salary raise.

Does anyone happen to know of any place that hosts summer classes? My teaching load through March is usually rather crushing, so I am wondering if any place at all has realized many students would sign on for summer or April-October classes. Willing to commute, so generally interested in any place doing this in the UK.

[scotia]

The places I know of are (i) places running taught masters programmes where there is some sort of summer school in place of a dissertation. The ones I know of are facing budget cuts so are increasingly requiring their own staff to do the teaching; (ii) US schools with summer programs in the UK; (iii) LSE - though I think they use their own people; (iv) the Open University - though they do not pay particularly well. 

[seniorscholar]

Picking up on Scotia's suggestion #2: I once had a colleague whose daughter, who had worked in a college [psychological] counseling center in the US, married a Brit and found a job with a US outfit that provided various services for US study abroad programs (which do not bring their college's counseling center, student health services, etc. etc. along and needed local people to help handle such things). So [bear with me] I thought "I wonder what that agency was; I'll Google 'Study Abroad London' and see if I can find it." Well, what I did find was a whole lot of links and adverts for Study Abroad programs in London -- and I wonder if it's any use checking to see if any of them are hiring local staff or faculty. I've certainly met a number of UK researchers (at archives where I've worked) who are "contract lecturers" or some such thing for US colleges in London.

[wegie]

Adding to Scotia's list: (v) a few post-92s who do year-round teaching, but they obviously prefer their own people; (vi) anywhere with a conted department that runs a number of summer schools. The problem with option (vi) is that the big summer schools (mainly Oxford and Cambridge) finalise their summer school list at least 9 months in advance, so chances of proposing a course or getting a teaching gig are now all gone.

[sandgrounder]

Does your institution or any nearby run widening participation activities over the summer? I know a couple of colleagues who did manage to get paid extra for teaching on these programmes where I work. If you have TEFL certification there's also summer teaching on the preparatory courses for international students that most places run - might be worth checking too whether INTO is hiring over the summer anywhere feasible for you, as I'm pretty sure I remember a recent PhD getting some classes teaching business-related stuff with them without being TEFL trained. My only other thought is tutoring for the first years who messed up their exams after partying all year and have August resits. Particularly worth trying if you live somewhere nicely middle class where parents are used to paying for education, and not used to their children failing things...

[britmom]

I've PM'd you.

[observer3]

Hi everyone,

Sorry for hiding away for a bit - some things happened that made it very hectic.

Thank you SO MUCH for all of the suggestions! And especially for the PM. I'll go through these and think about each.