Timeline for What does it mean to have vacation time in European academia?
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| Feb 17, 2015 at 15:13 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @socialsciencedoc: Maybe a bit late (you may have found out by now), but in many European places, there is no "big summer break" where all students are away. Specifics may vary by country, but, for example, in Germany, except for the one week between Christmas and New Year's Eve, it is very very unlikely to ever find any day where no students are working on any projects, come to university to discuss things with their advisors, or simply spend some time revising material (and thus may want to talk to some faculty) simply because they live in dormitories on campus, anyway. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 12:05 | history | edited | walkmanyi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2014 at 11:33 | comment | added | David Richerby | In the UK, whether or not you can carry unused vacation over from one year to the next varies from employer to employer. I imagine Sweden is the same. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 9:39 | comment | added | Flyto | Good answer. I would also add (based on UK employment experience) that it being mentioned up front in this way probably isn't the institution making a major point of it, but may be because there is a legal requirement to do so. If nothing else, (again, in .uk, I don't know how well this transfers to .se) the offer letter is often deemed to form the contract of employment if there is no seperate contract, and so the terms must be stated lest a legal "default" takes over instead. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 8:01 | history | edited | walkmanyi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2014 at 6:35 | comment | added | walkmanyi | @socialsciencedoc: yes, you are supposed to be at work. Students' vacations have little interaction with your job. As a PhD student/post-doc at periods when my involvement in teaching was low, I didn't even knew when students had vacations. Life of researchers/faculty ticks relatively independently from students' life clock. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 1:24 | comment | added | socialsciencedoc | What about during school vacations? Let's say summer vacations when classes are out of session. If you are not "on vacation," Are you still expected to be at school? | |
| Feb 12, 2014 at 23:57 | comment | added | gerrit | This makes me wonder: is it different elsewhere in the world? | |
| Feb 12, 2014 at 23:48 | history | edited | walkmanyi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2014 at 23:37 | history | answered | walkmanyi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |