Pros
- free medical benefit via panel clinics - share TM benefit such IPO shares and discount for Streamyx, Webe and Unifi - low teaching hours - average 4 to 12 per week, sometime can be exempted from teaching - provide sabbatical leave, industrial attachment and visiting leaves for staffs working for more than 3 to 5 years - heading towards blended learning teaching - staffs can apply for industrial research funding from TM (high value from 150 k to over millions) - Has good and systematic R&D supports
Kontras
- high administrative load for some faculties (teaching staff may need to involved marketing, counselling, seedling programs and other non-teaching related activies ) - required to learn new teaching method using blended learning - staff required to fulfill KPI in four baskets: (1) academic teaching (2) research (3) administrative and (4) community services - high requirement for promotion from senior lecturer to associate professor/ professor - implemented ISO in T&L and all T&L activities will be audited twice a year - trimester systems, the staffs will be very busy preparing and teaching whole year - high requirement for R&D in term of publication, securing research funding and getting postgraduate students - difficult to get promoted from lecturer to senior lecturer and to associate professor and professor (high requirement) ~ resulted most faculties with less than 20% of associate prof. /professors - low salary pay out in current trend - spending large amount of money for unnecessary beautification campus projects which is useless for students and staffs