Timeline for How hard is it to get tenure in mathematics?
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| Feb 5, 2011 at 0:01 | comment | added | Tom Leinster | Right, no one in the UK has tenure. Google "Thatcher abolished tenure" and you will find. But this makes less difference than you might imagine, probably in part because of the relatively strong trade unions. (I mean "relative" to some other countries.) In fact I'd had a permanent-as-they-come job in the UK for several years before learning that I did not in fact have tenure. | |
| Feb 4, 2011 at 18:43 | comment | added | roy smith | So why would tenured mathematicians leave the US for jobs in the UK, as some do? | |
| Feb 4, 2011 at 18:41 | comment | added | roy smith | So Atiyah doesn't have tenure? | |
| Feb 4, 2011 at 15:59 | history | answered | Tom Leinster | CC BY-SA 2.5 |