This year, I am blessed with amazing lecturers. However, I have not been so successful in previous years. And neither have any of my friends. It is quite a shock going from School to University. It is an even grater shock when you realise that sometimes....your lecturers really don't care about you. My sister is just experiencing this as she enters her first year of University. And my boyfriend is getting extremely upset as in his final and most important year, none of lecturers appear to care (for multiple reasons I will not go into)

Which is a reason why I believe teachers should get a higher salary than lecturers. Teachers don't have a high salary. They don't get to do their own research. No. Instead they work continual for the students. Their jobs and reputations are on the line if their class doesn't get good grades. So they work hard. They push their students and want to help them. This is quite evident with the recent two series 'Educating Essex' and 'Educating Yorkshire' which focus on quite 'rough' schools and the teachers never give up. Teachers go through so much physical and emotional strain. At the end of the day, they don't get to switch off, they do lesson plans, mark work and do more reading into what they are required to teach. They also spend time with their students. Offering to do extra revision sessions, helping students with their personal problems and offering to grade extra practice papers.

They also have to work with students who don't want to be there. They have to deal with it, inspire them and motivate them. They have to get students the grades they don't realise they need for future life. Those students who want to leave school the moment they can don't realise many jobs require them to have school qualifications, no matter what job it is. So teachers work with troublesome students, bothersome students, uncaring students and try and inspire them and get them the grades sometimes they almost try not to get. Lecturers are dealing with students who have applied to go to University and want to be there. They have chosen higher education as a route.


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