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Unpaid labour: exploitation of tutorial leaders at the University of Edinburgh

Tutorial leaders are inadequately paid, overworked and under-supported according to data uncovered in an investigation by The Student. Though integral to the academic lives of the 25,951 undergraduates at the university, tutorial leaders are systematically exploited; the university fails to adequately pay their tutors for the amount of work that they are performing, grossly underestimating […]

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In Their Own Words: The epidemic of casualised contracts, underpaid work and maltreatment of postgraduate tutors at the University of Edinburgh

In the past weeks a number of University of Edinburgh postgraduate tutors have come forward with complaints of chronic maltreatment on the part of the University, The Student can exclusively reveal.