yeah, but they are cunts, and will get what's coming ;)
I thought they had bottled that now anyway, because of confusion about job positions?

Edit - oh, I forgot, Reader helps because it used to be that departments or universities had a fixed number of chairs based on their size or some other measure, and effectively that meant if you stayed in one place you had to "inheret" your professorship with the previous incumbent's retirement, so if that was a long way off and you were good you got a readership.

Now, you can create as many bloody chairs as you like if you can justify and fund it. My department has 4 profs, one SL and 6 lecturers. Stable profile, do you think? ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 25 Feb 2010, 12:00, Reply)