996 working system for normal work of college teachers

Speaking of university teachers, it must be a job that many people envy. In people's eyes, university teachers have free working hours and high salaries. In fact, there is another saying in the internet industry, that is, the 996 working system, which means going to work at 9: 00 in the morning and leaving work at 9: 00 in the evening, and working six days a week. Under this working system, overtime is inevitable. So are university teachers in a state of overtime overload?

In fact, the 996 working system is only a normal state of university teachers, which means that most teachers' work intensity will exceed this figure, and only a few teachers will be lower than this intensity. Of course, the teachers here mainly refer to the front-line teaching and research personnel, not including the administrative staff of colleges and universities.

In recent years, the workload of university teachers has been increasing. Think about it for the following three reasons:

Drastic institutional changes

Someone once said that we are experiencing a great change once in a thousand years, and this adjective cannot be overemphasized in the field of teaching and scientific research.

Major adjustment, curriculum reform, performance reform, scientific research system reform, personnel changes, various teaching and scientific research system reforms have come and gone. No matter for honor or survival, every change will bring huge interest impact, and front-line teachers have to spend huge time and energy studying documents, grasping the spirit and adapting to this change.

Taking teaching reform as an example, since last year, major universities have started a new round of major and curriculum adjustment. The loss of majors and the cancellation of courses mean great risks for teachers with insufficient scientific research tasks. As an ordinary teacher, it is difficult to measure how to take it for granted, learn new courses and open up new majors. Take scientific research as an example. At present, in colleges and universities, the job title evaluation, performance appraisal standards and post standards of graduate tutors change once a year, even several times a year, and each change involves the vital interests of teachers. As a teacher, how many people can devote their time and energy to meet the constantly improving assessment standards without referring to the standards?

economic pressures

One of the biggest characteristics of market economy is that the role of money in social economy is suddenly amplified. Housing, education, medical care and old-age care, whether three mountains or five mountains, are nothing more than describing the great pressure of people's lives now. Although money is not everything in the world, there are 9900 kinds of things in 10000 that need money. University teachers are also human beings, and they also face the economic pressure of buying a house, getting married, educating and supporting the elderly. Low basic salary and high performance ratio are a major feature of university salary system. In order to get more performance pay, take the initiative to work overtime, get more class fees and earn more scientific research awards, which has become the normal state of green pepper's overload work in universities. People who don't work in the teaching and research department often think that university teachers are members of the system, with rich salaries and perfect social security. In fact, college teachers today are not quite the same as in the past. Nowadays, university teachers have already become paid workers on the performance production line. The basic salary of university teachers is not high at all, and the newly-employed doctor is 6,000 to 7,000 yuan per month. Pension has long been included in social planning, unemployment insurance has to be paid in teachers' salaries every month, and medical insurance is not perfect. What is even more worrying is that the reform of personnel establishment in colleges and universities is about to be fully rolled out. Taking Jiangsu as an example, most medical insurance in colleges and universities is not included in social pooling. The teacher went to the social hospital designated by the school, and many medical expenses could not be reimbursed. To make matters worse, teachers rely on their brains and throats to eat, and their teeth fall out, which directly affects the classroom teaching effect, while dental treatment belongs to the self-funded field. The author lost three teeth, and several teeth were loose. Only dental implants and root crown treatments cost more than 50,000 yuan, all from his own pocket. Although the author's title is mixed with that of a professor, his salary is not low, and he often feels great economic pressure, not to mention the green pepper who came from a civilian family and just joined the work. Most of the teachers born in the 1960s came from families with many children, and their families were not well off. A large proportion of brothers and sisters were laid off and unemployed. As a university teacher, I can be regarded as an individual with higher income in a family. Therefore, in addition to their children's education, children get married and buy a house, and parents' responsibility for providing for the aged falls on the children of university teachers. It is also the duty of university teachers to help brothers and sisters who have difficulties in life.

performance evaluation

This is a topic mentioned by front-line teachers in colleges and universities. Since there is a tall project, the life of college teachers has been inextricably linked with performance appraisal. To a large extent, overtime work does not come from the internal motivation of scientific research innovation, but from the great survival pressure of scientific research performance reaching the standard.

Based on the assumption of "inherent bad habits", a considerable number of colleges and universities have adopted harsh performance appraisal of whipping fast cattle. Take a 985 university as an example, the front-line teachers failed the appointment assessment, but were directly transferred to the logistics post instead of being demoted.

An unconfirmed joke, some teachers in a university of science and technology failed the appointment assessment, and an elderly professor begged the college leaders: even if professors and associate professors quit, they would never let the only lecturer quit; Otherwise, no one will teach students anymore. "The teachers in the school privately complained that the school adopted the strategy of killing the goose that lays the golden egg and drained the last drop of oil and water.

The consequences of long-term strict performance appraisal that does not match the salary are very serious: a large number of talents in this school fled and suffered a fiasco in the fourth round of discipline evaluation. Many of my friends teach in universities. One of the biggest surprises of friends gathering in recent years is that the aging speed of university teachers is accelerating. There are many people in their forties and fifties with gray temples, hunchback and strain of cervical and lumbar vertebrae.

University teachers in different schools and disciplines undertake different teaching and research tasks, and the work pressure of tall talents and grassroots teachers is not the same. In fact, the work system of university teachers is also random. Teachers in good schools will naturally devote more time and energy to teaching, so candidates who take various teacher recruitment exams still need to think clearly.