You can work alongside your stipend. If you receive more than the personal allowance in salary, you will be taxed on that, but that won't affect your stipend.

Yes, my department is pushing everyone to be a FHEA too, but not PhD students yet. The only requirement they need to have in order to teach is to be registered on to a PhD. Some PhD students are also giving lectures, leading practicals and running tutorials, but they are on hourly paid contracts.

Not having a PhD is definitely the exception, my department wouldn't have an issue of 'non-qualified staff' because 95% of full-time teaching staff have PhDs and most, if not all, will have or will be working towards FHEA status. I'm guessing they have ways of getting around listing PhDs students as teaching staff, maybe by not listing hourly paid contracts, I'm not sure.

We are the same as you - advertising to prospective undergrads that they they will be taught by world class researchers, it's just that increasingly this is not the case, and students are being taught by less experienced academics as most of the high profile researchers have grants and fellowships that minimize their teaching obligations.

Well, I'm in a top UK university and I wouldn't say it's the norm, but there's a couple of people I know in these positions without PhDs that aren't planning to get one. From looking at job descriptions of jobs advertised in other unis, I've seen PhDs listed as desirable rather than essential in these types of jobs. I'm guessing that in lower tier unis it's more likely that people in these teaching roles don't necessarily need a PhD, but the norm still is to have one.

There's many people in my department that don't like this, but sometimes people are excellent teachers without a PhD and students love them because of the way they lecture and support them in tutorials and practicals. Plus they come from outside academia with a load of enthusiasm for teaching and real world experience - this is quite often more than lecturers with PhDs have got, because they are more focused on research.

Personally I question the whole premise of a lecturer who doesn't do research but that seems to be the way my department is going.

I'm not sure how this impacts the TEF to be honest.

As far as I know, there's no RCUK rule that you can't have an extension. Universities don't want to give you one because they have a target to get 80% of PhD students submit within 4 years or it affects some funding I think. I know plenty of students who have had 6-12 month extensions on top of their 4 year funding (unpaid usually). The university can give you an extension if they want to, and it's in their interest to do so if you are likely to fail without it. You might have to play the mental health card though...

I should clarify that the teaching roles I am talking about are essentially lecturer roles. At Senior Teaching Associate level, you are an academic member of staff on the same grade and pay as a lecturer. You can usually progress to this from the more junior assistant and associate levels.

And I'd say do the PhD. You can always go abroad for a postdoc afterwards, but you never know if you will get onto a PhD again.

As with most things, the way you handle this effectively is in choosing to do so. You either accept that this is the way your PhD is going to be and stop letting it bother you, or you decide you don't want to spend the next few years like this and go home. Ultimately it is what is the most acceptable choice for you after weighing up all the things like career options and your mental health.

Alternatively you can speak to your supervisors honestly, give them the chance to give you the support you need, if not forthcoming you could go to graduate school head and tell them to sort it out and eventually change supervisors if still not as you want it.

Personally I would talk to supervisors, and just stop letting it bother me/accept that it's going to be an annoying 3-4 years if they didn't change and then just get on with my PhD.

You wouldn't normally publish a dissertation. It's not really in a publishable format. You write up what you've done for a book or journal article, depending on discipline. Normally you would then be first author and your supervisor last author. Generally your university owns your data.

You may be able to find teaching positions at universities (most likely lower tier ones) that don't require a PhD.

Many universities now are offering teaching only contracts, where you lecturer/tutor/teach undergrads but don't do research. These may be part time or term time only. It's essentially a lecturer-type role but with no research element.

Look for roles advertised as Teaching Assistant or Teaching Associate.

I'm in Biology and if anyone gets a publication in their second year, that's considered very good. Most people don't publish until their 3rd or 4th year.

If you get three papers from your thesis, that's considered good. Again, many people don't get that. I've got four papers from my PhD, one review and three data papers.

What do you mean he has left you?

Most people publish towards the end of their PhD so I wouldn't worry about that for now.

A PhD is supposed to be done by you really. Obviously it's easier if you have a support network of postdocs and other students but you should be able to do what you need to yourself.

Try telling your supervisor that you want more support and be as specific as you can, but if you don't get it, then accept this and make the best of it.

http://www.strath.ac.uk/careers/uni_staff/writingacademicreferences/exampleofacademicreference/

There's loads of other examples if you google it

Option B and then see what happens with funding after a year and leave with the MPhil if you have to.

B can't stop you going to A with your MPhil. People understand that students follow funding.

Ok, so you basically work it out like this.

Average your marks for your 15 credit units, let's say you got 63%. That's worth 120 credits.

Then let's say you got 70% for your 60 credit unit.

So, you effectively got 63% for two thirds of your masters mark and 70% for one third.

So, 63 + 63 + 70 = 65%.