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• The $3 Professor: Teaching in India
• Out of Africa: Brain Drain
• Japan's Part-Time Full-Time Instructors
• Best Wishes: An Ever-so-polite Union Takeover in England
• and more...

FEATURES

PROFILE
Part-timer Sasha Chernyak fled post-Soviet Russia along with thousands of other Jews. Now he wants to go back (with his students).

INDIA
In India, if the nepotism and bureaucracy don’t kill you first, the pay just might.

AFRICA
Brain drain throughout Africa is contributing to a rising underclass of poorly (and sometimes never) paid part-time lecturers. Can the trend be reversed? Not if international lending institutions and bankers have anything to say about it.

JAPAN
Part-time faculty in Japan earn, on average, just $18,000 per year–in a country where prices are 40 percent higher than those in New York. However, sengyo hijokin koshi across the country are organizing unions and working toward equitable pay.

BRITAIN
When more than 7,000 associate lecturers at the U.K.’s Open University got the short end of a union-negotiated salary package, they took over leadership of the local. Read carefully: there’s a somewhat ironic lesson here about launching a fight for independence and self-rule in the face of staggering odds. Ring a (Liberty) bell?

NEWS

LETTERS

INNOCENTS ABROAD
If you think it’s tough getting your students to participate in class, try teaching English in Micronesia.

ANALYSIS
It has been 19 years since the European Court of Justice told Italy to stop treating foreign-born university lecturers like second-class citizens. Will a daily $319K fine do the trick?

DESK DRAWER

• No Adjunct Sympathy (Strike) For NYU’s Striking Graduate Students
• Sessional Professor Offers Students a B- to Stay Home
• Canadian P/Timers Protest Against Themselves

REVIEWS

PAGES
Even if you can’t teach abroad you can travel. Our reviewer has just the book for you.

FOURTH ESTATE
We’ve rounded-up the best blogs on the subject of teaching abroad. Check them out!

OPINION

FIRST PERSON
Essayist Oronte Churm is a guy who just won’t quit. Here’s his riff on tenacity. It’s long, but we’re betting you’ll be up to it.

UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Are the F-word and making fun of your professor online crossing the line? F**k if we know, but essayist (and Mom) Meg Gutman Klosko has something to say on the subject.

A LITTLE RAILLERY
Like writer Matt Hall, sometimes you can teach abroad without ever leaving home.

LAST WORD
Why on earth are we writing about part-timers in India, Africa and Japan? Because you have a lot more in common with faculty teaching at universities in those countries than you may think.