Professor Marijn is looking for a permanent contract and is taking the university to court

Policy

Until 2019, many professors at Utrecht University (UU) had temporary contracts of six months or one year. At the end of 2018, 350 teachers were employed on a temporary basis and 50 on a permanent contract.

According to the UU itself, that uncertainty was not good for speakers. From 2019, teachers will therefore benefit from a 4-year contract. “With retraining, teachers who had to leave after four years have enough baggage to continue,” spokesman Maarten Post said at the time. “This long-term temporary contract will not be renewed when it expires.

As of the first quarter of 2022, 496 temporary teachers were employed at UU. “This increase is the result of the increase in the number of students from about 31,000 in the 2017-2018 academic year to 37,000 this academic year,” says a gatekeeper.

Two-thirds of these part-time teachers have an employment contract of at least 0.7 FTE and more than half have a one-off four-year contract (5% in 2019).

Source: RTL

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