The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession [electronic resource] : The BRICs and the United States /
Altbach, P.editor.
Androushchak, G.editor.
Kuzminov, Y.editor.
Yudkevich, M.editor.
Reisberg, L.editor.
This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 The Prospects for the BRICs: The New Academic Superpowers?; 2 Higher Education, the Academic Profession, and Economic Development in Brazil; 3 Changing Realities: Russian Higher Education and the Academic Profession; 4 India: Streamlining the Academic Profession for a Knowledge Economy; 5 The Chinese Academic Profession: New Realities; 6 The Changing American Academic Profession; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.
Higher education.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Educational sociology.
Sociology.
Higher Education.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology, general.