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helsinkiandrew 2 days ago

Was about to say the same. Haven't PhD students usually done tutorials and supervised labs to undergraduates for the extra cash. Certainly was the case in my electronics undergrad course a few decades ago.

> in 2023-24 one in five tutorials (20%) were taught by hourly-paid tutors – typically PhD students or academics at the start of their career.

njjnjj 2 days ago | parent [-]

Depends on the university. 25 years ago now but a number of the PhD students I worked with had mummy and daddy paying for everything. One enterprising guy had a side business selling cocaine. Most were slumming it in house shares and taking on casual work. Only the blessed had teaching appointments. I was blessed until I realised it was a curse.

helsinkiandrew 2 days ago | parent [-]

I meant that most labs and tutorials were run by PhD students, not that most PhD students had jobs running labs and tutorials.