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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: global future of higher education and the academic profession
    sub title: the BRICs and the United States
  name:
    name part: Altbach, Philip G.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 206 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession" focuses on the all-important emerging BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations by analyzing the academic profession and particularly salaries and contracts. The professoriate is key to the success of any academic system, and this is the first book to carefully analyze academic systems and the academic profession. The academic profession must be adequately paid, and appointments to academic jobs must be based on merit and provide an effective career path for the 'best and brightest' to be attracted to the profession. The BRICs show a variety of approaches to academic careers, and none provide globally competitive salaries. China and Russia, in particular, pay academics poorly. Using purchasing power parity, this book is able to accurately compare the actual purchasing power of the academic profession. The book also analyzes how professors are appointed and promoted. While the BRICs may be emerging global economic powers, their academic systems still face significant challenges.
  table of contents: 1. The prospects for the BRICs: the new academic superpowers? / P. Altbach -- 2. Higher education, the academic profession, and economic development in Brazil / S. Schwartzman -- 3. Changing realities: Russian higher education and the academic profession / G. Androushchak, Y. Kuzminov & M. Yudkevich -- 4. India: streamlining the academic profession for a knowledge economy / N. Jayaram -- 5. The Chinese academic profession: new realities; M. Wanhua and W. Jianbo -- 6. The changing American academic profession / M. Finkelstein and K. Iglesias.
  note: edited by Philip G. Altbach [and others].
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Education, Higher
    geographic: BRIC countries
  subject:
    topic: College teachers
    geographic: BRIC countries
  classification: 378.12
  identifier: 9780230369788
  identifier: 0230369782
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 121115
    record change date: 20151204205000.0
    record identifier: in00003155435