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The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession

The BRICs and the United States

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2013
ISBN13: 9780230369788
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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 2013 9780230369788
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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.

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ISBN13:9780230369788
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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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

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