Faculty of Humanities has produced a "Framework for Appointing and Supporting Teaching Assistants" and additionally suggests that we use the AHRC guidelines for GTAs who are full time PhD students at The University of Manchester:

"work may be undertaken provided that: the total demand on their time, including contact time and a reasonable allowance for preparation and marking, does not exceed 180 hours in any one year the total demand on their time does not exceed six hours in any week; the work is compatible with their programme of doctoral study; their supervisor approves.”

Find out more about being a TA on the Faculty Teaching and Learning site

• Job description
• Application form (Internal UoM PGRs/TAs only)
• Application form (Non-UoM/External Applicants)
• Training timeline

For any further queries, please contact sossta@manchester.ac.uk.

As a teaching assistant, you will need to use Campus Solutions, the student information system used at The University of Manchester, to record attendance at your tutorials and email students.

• Campus Solutions login
• Student attendance monitoring
• How to email students
• Tutorial attendance monitoring principles
• Adding students to attendance roster

GTAs are staff and as such are entitled to a staff card and a staff email account. You can only hold a staff OR a student card at one time, so you may need to keep changing your status. Once you have received your staff/library card from People & Organisational Development (P&OD - formerly HR), either complete the online registration form or contact P&OD at people-od.operations@manchester.ac.uk. Your staff email is valid for the duration of your contract. You may need to get back in touch with IT to reactivate your student account.

To use printers as a member of staff, you will need to get permission from IT. IT will be asked to add you to the relevant printers.

If you experience problems, please contact IT either through the Support Portal or by calling x 65544 from a School landline.