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Lecturers
Higher education is a large leap forward from high school, as the classrooms sizes you are used to throughout your education suddenly blossom into large lecture halls, where many students are taught by one lecturer (or more).
Lecturers are different from teachers in a number of ways and perhaps the most obvious one is that when they are not lecturing or passing on ideas, they are developing them themselves. Many lecturers will have published academic articles that have tried to widen the field of human understanding as well ass carrying out vast research into the field beforehand. It means that very often, lecturers will be teaching students ideas that they have explored and researched themselves.
Lecturers will also have other tasks away from the lecture theatre, in ways that are similar to teachers. They will have to mark assignments such as coursework or exams, tutor students one on one (particularly those working on dissertations), look over research that is being carried out by a student and much more.
As a lecturer, one would expect to be teaching at a university or postgraduate institution after obtaining an undergraduate and/or postgraduate degree, plus a PhD in the relevant discipline.
Human understanding is an important part of our heritage, and lecturers ensure that this continues.
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