Pros
Teaching new students is a fulfilling role
Cons
Vast majority of the teaching load of the entire university is undertaken by overworked underpaid (in some cases unpaid) postgrad students on extremely unstable contracts. Little consideration given for the true amount of time necessary for tasks outside the classroom, eg. grading assignments, lab manuals etc. but rather a fixed amount of time is paid ie. 1 hour and when this is innevitably not enough time teaching staff are left in the position of either working for free or providing inadequate or incomplete feedback to students. The priority in Maynooth University is clearly profit over students experience or learning outcomes and nowhere is this more clear than in the treatment of postgraduate teaching staff.
