Fairytale of No Work

Once upon a time, there was a young, female academic called Ella [not really, but we're all pseudonyms here].  After many years of study and working in different countries, she took up a job at Research University, in Big City, UK.

At first, the job was good.  The people were pleasant, the facilities more than adequate, and the teaching loads nicely balanced.  But all too soon, things started to change.  Because the university management had a new-found desire to top ratings in the National Student Survey, all the lecturers were told to spend more time building meaningful academic relationships with the undergraduates (but not, of course, to spend any less time on their research).

Now, Ella thought that getting to know the occasional student's name was a nice idea in principle, but she also thought that there weren't enough hours in the week to get to know the hundreds of students that passed through her department's doors every day.  So, Ella wasn't entirely surprised when she was informed that her teaching hours next academic year would be double the current level.

Ella was not happy about this.

Ella had left her last job partly because of the heavy teaching loads.

All together now, children:

Isn't is great that jobs.ac.uk is so easy to search?