Nach 130.000 gefragt, bekam ich 110.000. Immer noch nicht genug. Sie wollen 124.000.
In Deutschland erreicht ein Seniorprofessor auf W3 maximal 113.000, und das gibt es nur in zwei deutschen Bundesländern und das nur mit der absolut höchsten Gehaltsstufe und dem höchsten Dienstalter. Deutschland hat eines der höchsten Akademikergehälter in Europa. Vielleicht der höchste, außer Malta offenbar.
Für solch hohe Gehälter könnten wir sehr leicht ausländische Akademiker finden, die ein viel besseres akademisches Profil haben und bereit sind, viel härter zu arbeiten als die derzeitige Gruppe.
€130,000 salary for UoM professors, lol?!
byu/ineverfinishcake inmalta
Von ineverfinishcake
15 Kommentare
Holy shit, as a student at uni, they get 130,000 for shitty notes, and no help
Sure, why not? But make sure to dock their pay for every cancelled lecture 😂
Firstly, it’s a negotiating position. If they settle, presumably it will come in lower somewhere. Secondly, this is how Unions work: collectively bargaining to secure the best possible deal.
The Maltese academic market has visibly nothing to do with the German academic market (shocker!) or else it would indeed be easy “to find foreign academics with much better academic profiles, etc.”
ppl who studied sociology/geo-pol know that free tertiary education in malta is a BIBLICAL problem that eclipses most other local problems. i wont bother goin into detail. dyor. past form 5 it needs to be all privatized
I think the article does a good job of showing how disproportionately there salary already is compared to who runs the country, but they should really add in pilots, surgeons and consultants to show the wage gap in Malta.
Well this says for full professors so I’m guess it isn’t the same for the vast majority of uni lecturers. I studied at the faculty of humanities 20-ish years ago and many of our lecturers were part-timers. I had some of the same lecturers in English and Philosophy at both JC and UoM so I doubt those people are being paid anything like that.
I mean I can see the point, there are probably a lot of people across fields who are brilliant but leave academia because it doesn’t pay well. The same applies for all teachers. If you want the best minds of one generation nurturing the best minds of the next generation, you need to give them incentive.
That said I definitely had some truly awful lecturers. But maybe being competitively salaried will allow the university to retain the best. (In an ideal scenario, which let’s face it is still a stretch)
It’s a misleading article intended to stir controversy. It’s also based on „hearsay“ and may well be made-up numbers as negotiations are behind closed doors – even academics themselves are not told of the amounts that the union is trying to deal with. Also keep in mind this is the highest scale (full professor, quite hard to get promoted to), there is another professor scale which is paid less and there are many other lower scales – so most academics are currently paid much less than the 80k stated. Unions also aim high to try and get the best deal. This is also an important investment in the highest level of teaching/research on the island, affecting practically all professions of current and future generations, so it does make sense to heavily invest in HR at university (we are way back compared to other EU countries for example). Having said that, not all full professors, and in general academics, are fully dedicated to doing their work (teaching and also research) as they should, and there are definitely issues of efficiency at UM (arguably as with any other institution, business etc.). Rather than any pay „crackdown“, there should be a widespread check on academics who apart from their (supposedly) full-time job at UM, also have heavily demanding private jobs (including government positions!), taking up most of their time – clearly leaving no time to deliver what they should at UM. This then results in missed lectures, no time for students, inadequate lectures, etc. – clearly unacceptable. To be fair these are probably not the majority of academics at UM, and some faculties are way worse than others.
What do I have to do to get that pay? Seriously is this something reserved to someone who has dedicated their life in academic studies or is it something that if someone works hard, they can achieve?
Of all the salaries to complain about, educators and medical staff get a pass from me.
Now if the people doing those roles are shit, that’s another discussion.
I was taught by a couple professors at university. I was sincerely not impressed and had better experience with some junior staff.
From personal experience, the „bad“ professors are those above a certain age, who know they’re basically set for life even if they don’t lift a pen.
The younger ones really try hard to deliver high quality lectures, win grants and do research actually worth carrying out.
Unfortunately, the number of academic jobs is very limited. Such high salaries will only cripple it further, making it even harder to get in (and stay in). It also results in whoever is left having to pick up the slack, resulting in potentially extra work -> decline in quality.
Personally, I think that educators – not just university academics need to be respected more and provided with an adequate pay structure. But this only applies once they get their house in order. I hate generalising, but asking students about the availability of academics, the extent and quality of knowledge transfer, lecture content and delivery, and other aspects will give you a true picture of the current situation. Address that, and I am all in favour of improving their pay structure. I apologise for generalising once again, but do a tour on campus and see how many offices are open to students.
If the university wants to be competitive in the EU and attract talent then yes, It needs to have competitive salaries: what that exact number is I’m not sure.
So for me I’m not against Professors having the opportunity to make great money.
However, and it’s a big big HOWEVER, the professor need to be subject to proper competition from outside and be subject to the same requirements as benchmark universities on high-quality teaching standards, world-class research output, and collaboration with industry on talent and IP. From what I’ve seen, many departments jn the university would need to drastically improve to be considered Eve close to world class.
For me, the money isn’t an issue if the output reaches the same quality as top EU universities. But if the money increases but the output stays the same (and the universities outdated strategy stays the same) then we’ve all been tricked.
The university is one of Malta’s greatest assets. It about time it was treated as such. Higher salaries – sure. Higher standards – absolutely needed.
Don’t forget, Malta isn’t in all ways as attractive as other universities. They need to make up for that with salaries. I‘d rather see more educators earning well vs politicians spending money on other stuff.