You are right; however, you do want to get paid for the holidays as well, because if you only end up getting paid for 7 months out of 12 then you're worse off than you would be on 4500+holiday full pay. This little simple arithmetic seems to elude FT's working for 10,000 at training centres....AND they often work three times as many hours as they would do in a university.

So if you are saying 10,000 plus paid holidays, free flat, air fare for 17 hours or less (including bloody preparation) i agree with you totally, which means i shall ask for another 2000 from next year.