The restructuring of higher education and part-time instructors: a theoretical and political analysis of undergraduate teaching in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the last two decades, there have been noticeable changes in the ranks of academic labourers, specifically the increasing reliance on part‐time instructors. The use of part‐time instructors can be attributed to, among other things, cutbacks in state funding to universities and colleges due to, or as a response to, globalization. This study examines, at a theoretical level, the role of part‐time academic labourers in the teaching mandate of Canadian universities and colleges. The study analyses the teaching duties of part‐time academic labourers and notes significant theoretical difficulties that could undermine the quality of undergraduate teaching. The study also addresses the political problem of how to ensure that the quality of undergraduate teaching is not jeopardized due to the increasing reliance on part‐time instructors.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it