Monday, March 14, 2011

On reading "What is teacher tenure?"


I have a respond to what I was reading just now. The article entitled as "What is teacher tenure?" gives an idea to search what is the meaning of tenure. I got it here:

Definitions of tenure on the Web:
  • the term during which some position is held
  • give life-time employment to; "She was tenured after she published her book"
  • the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands
    wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
  • Tenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job and specifically to a senior academic's contractual right not to have their position terminated without just cause.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure
  • Tenure is a 2009 American comedy film, written and directed by Mike Million and starring Luke Wilson, David Koechner and Gretchen Mol. The film was produced by Paul Schiff and released by Blowtorch Entertainment as their first original production.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure_(film)
  • Land tenure is the name given, particularly in common law systems, to the legal regime in which land is owned by an individual, who is said to "hold" the land. The sovereign monarch, known as The Crown, held land in its own right. All private owners are either its tenants or sub-tenants. ...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure_(law)
  • a status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency; a period of time during which it is possessed; a status of having a permanent post at an academic institution; a right to hold land under the feudal system; To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone)
    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tenure
  • As defined in the Collective Agreement: continuing employment, ie all employment other than fixed-term and casual, for an academic staff member's appointment following the tenurable period.
    www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/glossary/
  • the conditions of occupancy of a piece of land.
    www.tuition.com.hk/geography/t.htm
  • A system of due process and employment guarantee for teachers. After serving a two-year probationary period, teachers are assured continued employment in the school district unless carefully defined procedures for dismissal or layoff are successfully followed. (Ed Source)
    williams.schoolwisepress.com/smart/dict/dict6.html
  • Essential for the protection of academic freedom, faculty tenure is, at its core, a presumption of competence and continuing service that can be overcome only if specified conditions are met. ...
    www.aaup.org/AAUP/about/mission/glossary.htm
  • Tenure is the system of holding land or property. It does not equate to ownership since, unlike goods, land cannot be possessed by one person in absolute ownership.THEME A data layer relating to a specific subject or topic of interest.
    www.thelist.tas.gov.au/docs/glossary/glossary.html
  • To hold, possess, or occupy. The mode of holding land All land in Australia and the United Kingdom that has been granted by the Crown, even that in fee simple, is held by tenure rather than by absolute ownership, as the Crown alone is the source of all tenure. ...
    www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/nt_report/ntreport05/app1.html
  • is from 4pm on the day of arrival to 10am on the day of departure (9.30 am for props 22 and 85). The customer undertakes to keep the premises and all furniture, fittings and effects in or on the premises in the same state of repair and condition as at the commencement of the holiday and also ...
    www.cornishcottagesonline.com/content/terms.html
  • the method whereby land rights are held.
    www.eurogeographics.org/documents/toledo_terminology_bl_15Nov05.ppt

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