Graduate teaching assistants deserve more than £4.40 per student per week

By Anonymous academic. Pay PhD students teaching university courses a living wage, or risk pricing most of us out – and shortchanging our students. Many universities employ PhD students like me as graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to teach on undergraduate courses. Yet at my university – a Russell Group institution – and others, we struggle to make ends meet because we are not paid for the majority of the work we do. Meanwhile, despite our efforts, students are not getting their money's worth. More...