Matt Husain, a PhD candidate at UBC’s Okanagan campus, was featured in Times Higher Education.
Over six weeks, Husain spent six weeks conducting an ethnographic study of faculty and students in his native Dhaka, in Bangladesh and found evidence of extremely poor pay for lecturers at private universities.
He called the teachers “rickshaw” faculty since they are forced to rush between schools on the vehicles.
“If they teach at four universities, that is enough to have a middle-class living – if they live with their parents,” he said.
