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global future of higher education and the academic profession
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.
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.
edited by Philip G. Altbach [and others].
Includes bibliographical references and index.