7 June 2022
Lecturers provide a significant part of the education within the UvA and are therefore an important and inseparable part of the university. This means the UvA must have a specific vision on the position of lecturers, with clarity about their career opportunities.
The new policy will offer lecturers better career prospects and more opportunities to develop professionally. It will also offer more security, since it includes long-term or permanent appointments, depending on the position. Some important points are:
Over the past months, 120 lecturers held a marking strike to draw attention to the position of teachers. They called for better contract scope, workload transparency, and professional development opportunities. In the course of the development of the new policy, meetings and consultations were held. Following the adoption of the new policy, the lecturers, united in Casual UvA, decided to end the marking strike because the new policy has "the potential to improve working conditions for all teachers, especially those on temporary contracts”.
An implementation plan has also been agreed for the new policy and will be underway before the summer. The faculties will work on the implementation for both existing and new lecturers. The implementation will be worked out by each of the faculties.
Previous news items about the lecturer policy: