Thirty years syne

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I joined the staff of Aberdeen College of Education in 1970 (a year after the official opening of the Hilton Campus) and left the staff of its successor, Aberdeen University's School of Education, in 2005. It might be of interest to old-stagers and recent recruits to the School of Education to have some reminiscences to illustrate how life has changed for teacher educators over that period. A good place to start may be my original contract. Lecturers were expected to 'continue the study of their subjects and, where possible, to contribute to the literature of their subjects'. There was no Research Assessment Exercise in these days to enforce the expectation. On the other hand, leave provision made it easier to do so: 'Lecturers shall have, in addition to the Christmas and Easter vacations (each about three weeks) an annual holiday entitlement of not less than two continuous months'. This enabled me to complete a higher degree much faster than had I still been a school teacher.

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