Framework agreement definition teaching

Staff who are designated as Teaching-oriented will be expected normally to undertake no more than 595 teaching hours per year, spread over no more than 38 weeks, two weeks of which will normally be focused on administration-related activities. Working weeks outside this period should be used for keeping abreast of the subject specialism through self-managed scholarly activity, professional updating or professional practice, identified in the individual annual programme. In addition, Teaching-oriented staff will only in exceptional, irregular and short-term cases be expected to teach to a maximum of 22 hours in any one-week. Both figures should not be taken as norms but maxima (except in limited circumstances identified in Section 3: Agreement on Loading, and 3.4.6 and 3.8.1 in particular where there is further advice and clarification on the interpretation of both weekly and annual figures and the circumstances where a higher annual figure might apply.
(definition of teaching staff)