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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR [2 records]

Record 1 2020-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Educational Institutions
DEF

A member of a college or university faculty who ranks above a lecturer or instructor and below an associate professor.

OBS

The assistant professor does not have tenure. He or she must be assessed and pass tenure to become an associate professor.

OBS

The first stage of a professorship.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Établissements d'enseignement
OBS

Le professeur adjoint est classé immédiatement sous le professeur agrégé et au-dessus du chargé de cours.

OBS

Les termes «professeur adjoint» et professeure adjointe» peuvent prendre un sens différent selon les systèmes éducatifs d'autres pays de la francophonie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Establecimientos de enseñanza
OBS

Administración universataria.

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Record 2 2010-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • School and School-Related Administration
DEF

Lecturer of senior status in U.K. further education, where a principal lecturer has a status and salary higher than that of a senior lecturer, or in a U.K. university where a senior lecturer is junior in status and salary to a reader or professor and where he/she may, rarely, be a head of department.

OBS

Broadly the U.S. equivalent is assistant professor.

OBS

"Senior lecturer" is sometimes used in Canadian universities, e.g. School of Nursing, University of Ottawa.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire
OBS

On écrirait mieux «sénior».

OBS

sénior : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

OBS

The University of Melbourne; poste vacant Maître de Conférence (senior lecturer) à la Section de Français, le Monde nº 882, 9-15 septembre 1965.

OBS

Chargé de cours senior, École des sciences infirmières, Université d'Ottawa.

Spanish

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