Editing Lecturer (section)

====Current uses====
The [[new universities (United Kingdom)|new universities]] (that is universities that were until 1992 termed [[Institute of technology|polytechnics]]) have a slightly different ranking naming scheme from the older universities. Many pre-1992 universities use the grades: lecturer (A), lecturer (B), senior lecturer, reader, professor. Meanwhile, post-1992 grades are normally: lecturer, senior lecturer, principal lecturer (management-focused) or reader (research-focused), professor. Much confusion surrounds the differing use of the "senior lecturer" title. A senior lecturer in a post-1992 university is equivalent to a lecturer (B) in a pre-1992 university, whereas a senior lecturer in a pre-1992 university is most often equivalent to a principal lecturer in a post-1992 university.<ref name=Webb>Graham Webb, ''Making the Most of Appraisal: Career and Professional Development Planning for Lecturers,'' Routledge, 1994, p. 30, {{ISBN|0-7494-1256-9}}</ref>

According to the ''[[Times Higher Education]]'', the [[University of Warwick]] decided in 2006 "to break away from hundreds of years of academic tradition, renaming lecturers 'assistant professors', senior lecturers and readers 'associate professors' while still calling professors 'professors'. The radical move will horrify those who believe the "professor" title should be reserved for an academic elite."<ref>Lee Elliot Major, "[https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/get-the-drinks-its-professor-all-round/202229.article Get the drinks. It's professor all round]", ''Times Higher Education'', 31 March 2006</ref> Nottingham has a mixture of the standard UK system, and the system at Warwick, with both lecturers and assistant professors. At Reading, job advertisements and academic staff web pages use the title associate professor, but the ordinances of the university make no reference to these titles. They address only procedures for conferring the traditional UK academic ranks.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/Calendar/New_Section_F_2010.pdf | title=Section XI Election and Appointment to Professorships or Readerships or Senior Lecturerships | work=Ordinances of the University of Reading (2010-11) | access-date=18 December 2011 | pages=23–25 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416221602/http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/Calendar/New_Section_F_2010.pdf | archive-date=16 April 2014}}</ref>