Time! What’s that? You’re joking, I don’t have any!

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand how lecturers delivering college based higher education (CBHE) viewed their workloads, and how this (if at all), influenced their engagement in scholastic activities, which may then enable them to become more knowledgeable in their chosen field of study. The research was of a qualitative nature; where semi-structured, in-depth interviews were undertaken with twenty-six individual lecturers employed at different Further Education Colleges (CBHE), throughout the Yorkshire and Humber region. It was found that time, and the amount of administration on top of their current workload, were some of the major issues these lecturers were facing in their current roles. To this end, a recommendation of an independent audit be conducted to ascertain the actual contact time lecturers in CBHE have, and how to possibly reduce the levels of administration in line with the HEFCE (2009) report.