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A guest lecturer is a professional or an expert who may lecture one or two classes on his profession. They are not usually academics, they do it due to passion and status, they have immense knowledge of their field. They are needed for a specialist skill which can not be met through a permanent staff, for instance, a professional lawyer may be employed as a guest lecturer to teach business law in school of management or employed to teach food law in the department of food science or department of Nutrition. They usually get a gift payment not salary.


- A contract or contractual lecturer work as a full time lecturer but always have a much "less salary" compared to that of regular or permanent lecturer. The contract is usually renewed from time to time e.g after every two years.

I would like to know the difference between a guest and contract lecturer please.