The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession
Subtitle: The BRICs and the United States
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Feb 05, 2013
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780230369788
Description: "The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession focuses on the all-important emerging BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) nations and the United States 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"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Source title: The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession: The BRICs and the United States