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University lecturer — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Computer and Information Systems Managers · Business Teachers, Postsecondary · Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary · Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary · Physics Teachers, Postsecondary · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects · Computer Hardware Engineers
In the official classification#
Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
Job Zone 5: extensive preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗Physics Teachers, Postsecondary
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
Job Zone 5: extensive preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
Job Zone 5: extensive preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗In Europe, internationally and in Singapore
University and higher education teachers
Fit with this page: broader than this page
University lecturer
Fit with this page: same job
What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 25-1021.00 (Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- InstructingVery important
- Judgment and Decision MakingVery important
- Complex Problem SolvingVery important
- Social PerceptivenessVery important
- Systems AnalysisImportant
- Systems EvaluationImportant
- Service OrientationImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
Knowledge
- Computers and ElectronicsExtremely important
- Education and TrainingExtremely important
- English LanguageVery important
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- MathematicsVery important
- Engineering and TechnologyVery important
Work activities
- Training and Teaching OthersExtremely important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeExtremely important
- Working with ComputersExtremely important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsVery important
- Thinking CreativelyVery important
- Getting InformationVery important
Abilities
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Written ExpressionVery important
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
- Inductive ReasoningVery important
Essential skills
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- WritingVery important
- SpeakingVery important
- Active ListeningVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
Each task in O*NET's terms#
O*NET describes work as detailed activities. Each of this page's 5 tasks is matched only against the activities O*NET lists for this occupation, with a stated fit; 5 match at least one. The alignment and its fit are this site's judgement, made task by task by its AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26; O*NET does not align tasks like ours. The activity names are O*NET's, the translations ours.
- Lecturing and teachingTeach physical science or mathematics courses at the college level.covers part of this task · Training and Teaching Others · O*NET 31.0Teach social science courses at the college level.covers part of this task · Training and Teaching Others · O*NET 31.0
- Assessment design and integrityPrepare tests.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People · O*NET 31.0
- Marking and feedbackEvaluate student work.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: School teacher
- Research and writingResearch topics in area of expertise.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge · O*NET 31.0Write articles, books or other original materials in area of expertise.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Documenting/Recording Information · O*NET 31.0
- Peer reviewEvaluate scholarly materials.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People · O*NET 31.0
Tasks O*NET proposes to add#
O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.
- Review articles to determine their suitability for publication.New task · 2019-08 · reported by surveyed workers · O*NET 31.0
- Mentor other faculty members.New task · 2019-08 · reported by surveyed workers · O*NET 31.0
Rules that bind this work#
Laws, regulations, court rules, regulators' guidance and collective agreements that this page's verified records read — each with the verb that matters and whom it binds. Read from each record by this site's AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26. Official names stay in their own language.
Reconsidering assessment for the ChatGPT era
advice that generative AI output cannot reliably be detected and assessment should be reconsidered · should — best efforts or an expectation, not a hard duty · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) → Assessment design and integrity
2023-07-01 · the record →Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 5 task judgements are for: 4 backed by a verified event, 1 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Each block says where it comes from: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, the European ESCO classification and its official crosswalk to O*NET, the ILO's ISCO-08, Singapore's SSOC 2024, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- The ESCO and ISCO-08 fits are derived mechanically from the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk; where we override it, we say why in our data (for example, the crosswalk pairs radiologists with radiographers, which is a different job). The SSOC 2024 fit is our reading of the Singapore Department of Statistics' own titles and definitions. Official names are shown as their publishers write them; we do not translate them.
- Each task is matched only against the detailed work activities O*NET lists for the codes this page maps to. Where nothing fits, the page says why instead of forcing a match: work O*NET does not describe yet (used only for tasks we judge to be emerging), or nothing in O*NET's list for this occupation. An alignment never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- Rules are read only from this site's verified records. A rule's official name must appear word for word in a record that reads it, so no name is made up; a policy mandate is read only as 'must', 'must not' or 'funds', because 'should' and 'in principle' are not a mandate. Reading a rule never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- How these pieces fit together — objects, links and the actions that change them — is drawn as one diagram: The VOLO ontology
- ESCO (European Commission), occupation records from the ESCO API; CC BY 4.0. ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, ESCO Secretariat with the U.S. Department of Labor/ETA, version 1 (Sep 2022), O*NET-SOC 2019 ↔ ESCO v1.1.0; CC BY 4.0. Singapore Department of Statistics, Singapore Standard Occupational Classification 2024 and its correspondence with ISCO-08.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.