The underrated engagement of teaching staff
Good education at universities highly depends on the motivation of the teaching staff. A big part of the teaching is undertaken by non-professorial academic staff.
But for their academic career, it is often only the research achievements, that count. Karin Schwiter about the paradox of the academic career system in an article of the NZZ (in German).
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