Visiting scholar

A guest lecturer is a lecturer, teacher or professor who is not permanently available at the university or institution where he teaches under contract and thus no permanent employees.

The restriction of non-permanent employees can thus refer to a time frame. Examples:

The constraint can also refer to a shortage of faculty rule in the institution, or to a formal training deficit of teachers. Examples:

In both examples, the professional qualification is given as an example for chemistry; However, missing from the guest lecturers formal verification pedagogical suitability for the teaching profession.

In institutions such as community colleges no sharp distinction between "regular " faculty and guest lecturers more is often possible; such institutions have generally only have administrative staff in the workforce and their faculty staff akqirieren semi-annual basis according to need.

• Higher education system