Lecturer

Lecturer is a common in English-speaking name for certain types of university teachers at the bottom of the academic hierarchy.

The concept of Lecturer has different meanings, which can lead to confusion in different English-speaking countries. The following table shows the use of the term in the context of academic ranks in some English-speaking countries:

The correspondences should be emphasized that a lecturer in the UK are employed usually after two years of probation for life, enjoy Assistant Professors usually tenure track, while junior professors are employed on a temporary simple in most cases. Senior Lecturer and Reader call now often the same position ( such as the University of Oxford awards the title of Reader no longer ). Professors in the UK, Australia and New Zealand occupy a prominent position, which is comparable to "Distinguished Professor" in the United States; their number per department is small. In this respect, here is a comparison with W3 professors in Germany is not quite right. The term " chair " there is only in Southern Germany, and the terminology " W3 with or without management function " is a Baden-Württemberg specialty. The German lecturer and extraordinary professors find in the United States an approximate match in the Adjunct Associate Professor Adjunct professor or the. Here, as there, they contribute a significant part of the teaching.

Use in Germany

Also in Germany is the term used more and more in the universities. Thus allowing the Higher Education Act NRW in § 42 paragraph 3, the department councils university lecturers who are employed as a teacher for special tasks, to give the title of " Lecturer".