UP Professors Earn Less Than PMA Cadets?

[chua_riwap]

UP Professors Earn Less Than PMA Cadets


Inquirer
12/29/2006

CADETS at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) may not know it, but they are actually earning more than some teachers at what is considered the country’s premier educational institution, the University of the Philippines system.

While a PMA cadet gets P16,338 every month, including subsistence allowance, an assistant professor I at the state-run university, with salary grade 18, has a monthly salary of P15,841.

“At standardized salary rates, the UP faculty is resigned to a life of genteel poverty,” Roland Simbulan, faculty regent, said at the recent UP System-wide Academic Personnel Conference in the Diliman, Quezon City campus. “If a faculty member is an instructor or assistant professor, it means that he/she gets less than what a student earns in a call center,” he added.

The UP has a faculty of 3,600 educators in all its campuses. Simbulan said that while faculty members were proud to be teaching some of the brightest students in the country, even the prestige of teaching at the premier university was being eroded by the more pressing need to survive.

“Because of their meager salaries, most UP teachers can only afford to live in rented apartments on or outside their campuses,” Simbulan said. And those who stayed on campus “dreaded” the day of their retirement, knowing they would be evicted from their subsidized housing facilities, he added.

“Professors who are too old to shift careers are forced to peddle insurance plans and real estate, chorizo, and even cemetery plots to augment their income,” Simbulan said in his report.

The meager compensation based on the Salary Standardization Law was a “pittance compared to what is given to professors in leading private universities,” he said.

According to the 2006 report of the UP Ad Hoc committee to review tuition and other fees, a full professor at UP is paid P13,686 per teaching load unit—well below the P27,971 at De La Salle University and P18,600 at Ateneo de Manila University.

A UP associate professor receives P11,019, while his/her counterparts at La Salle and Ateneo receive P18,312 and P15,400, respectively. For UP assistant professors, the basic rate is P9,033. At La Salle and Ateneo the rates are P13,645 and P11,000, respectively. UP instructors get P7,098, while those in La Salle and Ateneo receive P9,454 and P7,600, respectively.


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Totoo ba ito? Kawawa naman pala itong mga profs sa UP. Mababa pala sahod. Ano ba ibig sabihin ng "per teaching load unit"?

Sa baba ng sahod nila, baka may mag-side line na rin sa kanila ng tusino or Avon sa campus.

[swimstroke]

Sabi nga ng professor ko before, saglit na turo niya sa La Salle Taft daig pa sahod niya sa UP Manila.

[jerkky]

Maybe true. Pero at least, the professors in UP don't experience the rigorous training of PMA cadets. Not to mention hazing. Comparing it side by side, lamang pa rin UP professors in general. They have more free time, can go to gimmicks if time permits, etc. The cadets, they can't even have their hair touch their eyebrows!

Pero different case na siguro pagka-graduate ng PMA and AFP official na.

[wakin]

"per teaching load unit" -> ano po ba ibig sabihin nito?

[mazdamazda]

A UP associate professor receives P11,019, while his/her counterparts at La Salle and Ateneo receive P18,312 and P15,400, respectively. For UP assistant professors, the basic rate is P9,033. At La Salle and Ateneo the rates are P13,645 and P11,000, respectively. UP instructors get P7,098, while those in La Salle and Ateneo receive P9,454 and P7,600, respectively.

Errr...

Their salaries are not that far off relative to the difference between the tuition fee of UP & La Salle / Ateneo.

[Galactus]

Which is why I'm for raising the tuition at UP. The last time it was raised was in 1989, and besides subsidized pa rin naman yung mga nasa lower-income brackets.

But one thing the report failed to mention are the accompanying "privileges" of UP faculty. When I was still studying at UP Manila, halos lahat ng faculty members ng Dept. of Social Sciences, (ultimo Instructor), nakapag-travel na abroad, not just once but several times, courtesy of UP's linkages with other foreign schools.

[bender]

Well since my professors were very vocal about the differences in salaries as early as 2003, the wide disparity between UP and Ateneo/Lasalle/UAAP made many of them decide to teach in those schools instead as it is basically the same work for more pay. One of my professors who was based in UPLB would normally commute or even hitch a ride with me going out of UP.

[rsnald]

medyo luma na yung mga figures pero tama pa rin yung issue about disparity.
nagtuturo dati sa UPDil yung friend ko, tapos nag-try sya mag part-time teaching sa La Salle Taft. malaki nga daw difference.

on the PMA cadets or Military officers getting higher pay than professors, siguro di masyadong issue coz of the inherently more hazardous nature of a soldier's "work". heck, wala naman yatang hazard pay mga sundalo natin, naku-corrupt pa yung mga pondo nila for logistics and ammo supplies.

[Alpha_One]

"per teaching load unit" -> ano po ba ibig sabihin nito?

Ano ba ibig sabihin ng "per teaching load unit"?

Teachers in universities have their workload measured as "teaching load units", similar to college students' workload of "academic units". So for the say, 3-unit GE class, the teacher gets 3x<amt. per teaching load unit>.

[niky]

Which is why I'm for raising the tuition at UP. The last time it was raised was in 1989, and besides subsidized pa rin naman yung mga nasa lower-income brackets.

But one thing the report failed to mention are the accompanying "privileges" of UP faculty. When I was still studying at UP Manila, halos lahat ng faculty members ng Dept. of Social Sciences, (ultimo Instructor), nakapag-travel na abroad, not just once but several times, courtesy of UP's linkages with other foreign schools.

Too true. Andami din naming classmates na "loaded" (ka-klase ko sa UP ang grand-daughter ng founder ng Mapua)... and I've often wondered... many of my classmates couldn't wait to finish and leave for the US... why are taxpayers subsidizing middle class kids who won't work for the Philippines?

Although they'd have to revise the STFAP before raising the tuition, as I also had classmates who really needed the help.

RE: Linkages... di lang naman UP... many major schools have lots of contacts that give them these bonuses.