20th December 2006, 11:49 AM
Quote:quote:Not sure at all about those comparisons. A lecturer, for instance, would normally expect to have a PhD and a number of good published research papers (not limited to excavation reports) before appointment, and how many Project Officers can say that?
Bear in mind as well that a lecturer will normally have been a post-Doctoral Research Fellow (or some similar title), not a research assistant, before appointment to teaching staff. Shifting from the full-time research grades to teaching grades often involves a pay cut - i.e. they may drop down to the scale you indicate.
Lecturer A = the bottom of the Lecturer ladder (G5)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (G4)
Research assistant (G3/4)
AS trowel says... lets not get bogged down too much... it is (as has been shown ) very difficult to fit a single grading sytem into a 4 types of heritage professional system. But we have to start somewhere... and minimums are the best we can hope for...
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Khufu