The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession

The Brics and the United States
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-49361-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2873 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altbach, P.

Androushchak, G.

Kuzminov, Y.

Yudkevich, M.

Reisberg, L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Martin J. Finkelstein, Seton Hall University, USA

Kevin W. Iglesias, Seton Hall University, USA

N. Jayaram, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India

Ma Wanhua, Center for International Higher Education at Peking University, China

Simon Schwartzman, Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade, Brazil

Wen Jianbo, Central University of Finance and Economics, China